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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 were the people called who lived on the planet where the city waits?
(a) Brinian.
(b) Taollan.
(c) Prinian.
(d) Carollan.

2. How much do Marionettes cost?
(a) $7,600 to $15,000.
(b) $20,000 to $39,000.
(c) $5,000 to $12,000.
(d) $10,000 to $19,000.

3. In "No Particular Night or Morning", when does the lunch bell ring?
(a) 1200 hours.
(b) 1305 hours.
(c) 1230 hours.
(d) 1100 hours.

4. When was Leonard Mark's mother in a blowup of London?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1945.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when the narrator has finished all the stories on the Illustrated Man?

2. What did the Captain in "The Exiles" order at the last minute from the Historical Museum?

3. What did Saul Williams and another sick man discuss six months ago?

4. When the Bodonis draw straws to see who will ride on a rocket, who draws the short straw the first time?

5. Where does Hitchcock go after eating lunch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bodoni take all his children into space?

3. What does Mr. Machen say would happen to the banned authors if all their works were destroyed?

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

5. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

6. What choice does Ettil believe he has after landing on Earth?

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

8. Why has the city waited twenty thousand years for men from Earth?

9. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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