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

2. Where are William and Susan Travis from?
(a) 2105.
(b) 2155.
(c) 2200.
(d) 2205.

3. What is the name of the movie producer who wants to hire Ettil as an advisor for a movie about the Mars invasion?
(a) R. R. Van Plank.
(b) M. M. Van Buren.
(c) B. B. Vander Struve.
(d) T. T. Van Domn.

4. What disease does Saul Williams have that put him in quarantine on Mars?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Chronic cough syndrome.
(d) Blood rust.

5. What time is it when the narrator has finished all the stories on the Illustrated Man?
(a) Almost 1 a.m.
(b) Nearly 2 a.m.
(c) Nearly 11 p.m.
(d) Almost midnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Clemens's girl live?

2. In "The Exiles", what is the date?

3. What does the tattoo show that forms on the empty space upon the Illustrated Man's back?

4. What song is being played on the bandstand at the beginning of "The Fox and the Forest"?

5. How many Americans does Ettil tell his wife Tylla are killed each year in automobiles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

2. What does Hitchcock do at the end of the chapter?

3. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

6. What did the city do to the captain of the rocket ship?

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

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

9. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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