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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 is William Travis's job back home in the future?

2. How many Americans does Ettil tell his wife Tylla are killed each year in automobiles?

3. What song is being played on the bandstand at the beginning of "The Fox and the Forest"?

4. What is the name of the film director of the American motion picture company that William and Susan Travis observe?

5. How old is Leonard Mark?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where else are children playing Invasion?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the fireworks Father Peregrine saw as a child to the beings on Mars. Use examples from the story.

Essay Topic 3

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

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