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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. How old is Mink?

2. How old are Smith and Braling?

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

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

5. Where else are the children playing Invasion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

6. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

9. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

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

In "The Veldt", technology becomes dangerous. Discuss the threat of ever-increasing technology, using 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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