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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 does the band play as the Martians prepare to land on Earth?
(a) "California, Here I Come".
(b) "This Land is Your Land".
(c) "America the Beautiful".
(d) "My Country 'Tis of Thee".

2. Where is Braling going on Thursday?
(a) Miami.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Havana.
(d) Rio.

3. What age of children are playing Invasion?
(a) Under fourteen years old.
(b) Under ten years old.
(c) Under eight years old.
(d) Under twelve years old.

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

5. How long has Bodoni worked in his junk yard?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 25 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "No Particular Night or Morning", when does the lunch bell ring?

2. What were the people called who lived on the planet where the city waits?

3. How much money does Bodoni have saved?

4. Including Ettil, how many Martians are on the rocket that lands in Greentown, California?

5. What time does Mink say zero hour will be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

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