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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. How many men come to the planet where the city waits?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

2. Where is the moon when the narrator finishes all the stories on the Illustrated Man?
(a) Near the western horizon.
(b) Half way up in the sky.
(c) High in the sky.
(d) Near the eastern horizon.

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

4. What time does Mink say zero hour will be?
(a) Four o'clock.
(b) Five o'clock.
(c) Seven o'clock.
(d) Six o'clock.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much do Marionettes cost?

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

3. How long has Bodoni worked in his junk yard?

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

5. Where are William and Susan Travis from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

3. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

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

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

6. Why must clients of Marionettes, Inc., be pledged to secrecy?

7. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

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

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