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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. Including Ettil, how many Martians are on the rocket that lands in Greentown, California?
(a) 43.
(b) 39.
(c) 51.
(d) 49.

2. How old are Smith and Braling?
(a) Around 40.
(b) Around 30.
(c) About 25.
(d) About 35.

3. How many Americans does Ettil tell his wife Tylla are killed each year in automobiles?
(a) 27,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 32,000.

4. In "No Particular Night or Morning", when does the lunch bell ring?
(a) 1305 hours.
(b) 1100 hours.
(c) 1200 hours.
(d) 1230 hours.

5. What is the date at the beginning of "The Fox & the Forest"?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease does Saul Williams have that put him in quarantine on Mars?

2. How old is Leonard Mark?

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

4. Where else are the children playing Invasion?

5. What is the doctor's name in "No Particular Night or Morning"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are William and Susan Travis's real names and where are they from?

3. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

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

7. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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

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

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