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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. How many children does Bodoni have?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. What is Smith's wife's name?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Susie.
(c) Nettie.
(d) Nellie.

4. What did Saul Williams and another sick man discuss six months ago?
(a) Epicurus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aristotle.

5. When the Bodonis draw straws to see who will ride on a rocket, who draws the short straw the first time?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) Antonello.
(c) Miriamne.
(d) Mrs. Bodoni.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Braling going on Thursday?

2. How long had the city waited for revenge?

3. Why does Mary Morris's friend Helen call her?

4. When Poe and Bierce enter a small valley and suddenly find themselves on a cobbled street, what song do they hear?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bramante say will happen if only one member of Bodoni's family goes to Mars?

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

3. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

5. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

6. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

9. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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