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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Braling going on Thursday?

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

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

5. Where are William and Susan Travis from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What choice does Ettil believe he has after landing on Earth?

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

7. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how and why "The Rocket Man" is caught between two worlds. Use examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether the Martians win or the people of earth win when the Martians invade the earth in "The Concrete Mixer". Use examples from the story to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Mrs. Morris did not realize that Mink and the other children really were planning an invasion. Use examples from "Zero Hour".

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