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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. When Poe and Bierce enter a small valley and suddenly find themselves on a cobbled street, what song do they hear?
(a) "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".
(b) "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
(c) "Good King Wenceslas".
(d) "O Tannebaum".

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

4. How many years has Smith been trying to get Braling out for a quiet drink?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 5 years.

5. How long had the city waited for revenge?
(a) 15,000 years.
(b) 25,000 years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) 20,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are Smith and Braling?

2. What are the walls of the city made from?

3. How old is Leonard Mark?

4. What is the name of the movie producer who wants to hire Ettil as an advisor for a movie about the Mars invasion?

5. How old is Mink?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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

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

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