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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. Whom does Poe want Bierce to warn about the rocket coming to Mars?

2. Including Ettil, how many Martians are on the rocket that lands in Greentown, California?

3. What did Saul Williams and another sick man discuss six months ago?

4. What were the people called who lived on the planet where the city waits?

5. What does the tattoo show that forms on the empty space upon the Illustrated Man's back?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

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

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

4. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

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

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

7. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

10. Why does Ettil believe that a Martian invasion of Earth will fail?

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

Discuss how greed destroys happiness in "The Visitor". Use examples from the story.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from "The Exiles", discuss how technology stifles imagination.

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