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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 time does Mink say zero hour will be?

2. How old is Bramante?

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

4. What is Smith's wife's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Bramante say will happen if only one member of Bodoni's family goes to Mars?

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

5. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

6. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

7. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

8. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the psychological and physical effects that Venus has on men in "The Long Rain".

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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