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

2. Where does Braling keep his Marionette?

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

4. What time is it when the narrator has finished all the stories on the Illustrated Man?

5. How old are Smith and Braling?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

2. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

10. What are William and Susan Travis's real names and where are they from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the conflict that occurs in "The Marionette".

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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