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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 far are Hitchcock and Clemens from Earth?
(a) A million miles.
(b) A trillion miles.
(c) A hundred thousand miles.
(d) A billion miles.

2. What time is it when the narrator has finished all the stories on the Illustrated Man?
(a) Almost midnight.
(b) Almost 1 a.m.
(c) Nearly 11 p.m.
(d) Nearly 2 a.m.

3. In "The Concrete Mixer", what is presented to the Martians during the welcoming speeches?
(a) 2-ton truck full of grapefruit.
(b) A railroad car full of popcorn.
(c) A railroad car full of soft drinks.
(d) 3 tons of lemons.

4. Why does Mary Morris's friend Helen call her?
(a) To get a pork roast recipe.
(b) To get the black-and-white cake recipe.
(c) To get a beef roast recipe.
(d) To get an angel food cake recipe.

5. When Saul kidnaps Leonard and takes him to a cave, what does Leonard disguise himself as?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A boulder.
(c) A beetle.
(d) A rock wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had the city waited for revenge?

2. How old are Smith and Braling?

3. What is the name of the travel agency that William and Susan Travis used to travel to 1938?

4. What is the name of the film director of the American motion picture company that William and Susan Travis observe?

5. Banned authors now live on Mars. When were their books banned on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

10. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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