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

2. During what season of the year does a rocket land on a planet where a city waits?

3. What are the walls of the city made from?

4. How many rocket ships have come to the waiting city, including the rocket that lands at the beginning of "The City"?

5. Where do Mary and Henry Morris hide from the children at five o'clock?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

4. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

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

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

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

8. Why are men exiled to Mars in "The Visitor"?

9. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss how the characters react when they learn that it is the "Last Night of the World" and why there is no rioting. Use examples from the story.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the story, discuss the cycle of violence that occurs in "The Other Foot".

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