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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What equipment in Bodoni's junk yard broke down last week?
(a) Aluminum furnace.
(b) Roll-off wrecker.
(c) Vehicle dismantler.
(d) Scrap processor.

2. Where does the narrator run to?
(a) A man driving by in a car.
(b) A small town.
(c) A police station.
(d) A grocery store.

3. What is the name of the film director of the American motion picture company that William and Susan Travis observe?
(a) Ted Callaway.
(b) Brian Rollins.
(c) Joe Melton.
(d) Bob Minton.

4. In "The Concrete Mixer", what is presented to the Martians during the welcoming speeches?
(a) A railroad car full of soft drinks.
(b) A railroad car full of popcorn.
(c) 3 tons of lemons.
(d) 2-ton truck full of grapefruit.

5. When Poe and Bierce enter a small valley and suddenly find themselves on a cobbled street, what song do they hear?
(a) "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
(b) "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".
(c) "Good King Wenceslas".
(d) "O Tannebaum".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where else are the children playing Invasion?

2. How many rocket ships have come to the waiting city, including the rocket that lands at the beginning of "The City"?

3. What age of children are playing Invasion?

4. Where are William and Susan Travis from?

5. How far are Hitchcock and Clemens from Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are William and Susan Travis's real names and where are they from?

2. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

3. Why are men exiled to Mars in "The Visitor"?

4. Why does Ettil believe that a Martian invasion of Earth will fail?

5. What tattoo begins to form after the narrator has seen the stories on the Illustrated Man?

6. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

7. What time does the narrator finish seeing the stories on the Illustrated Man?

8. Where else are children playing Invasion?

9. What does Drill promise the children if they help with the invasion?

10. In "The Exiles", what did the captain dream every night until the week they took off from Earth?

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