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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 nationality is the young man in stories who usually thwarts a Martian invasion?
(a) Irish.
(b) German.
(c) Swedish.
(d) French.

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

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

4. How long does it take Hitchcock to smoke a packet of cigarettes?
(a) 2 1/2 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 1 hour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is William Travis's job back home in the future?

2. What song is being played on the bandstand at the beginning of "The Fox and the Forest"?

3. What time does Mink say zero hour will be?

4. When the Bodonis draw straws to see who will ride on a rocket, who draws the short straw the first time?

5. How old is Bramante?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

3. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

6. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

7. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

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

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

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

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