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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the company commanders control their troops?
(a) Through implanted antennas.
(b) Through hypnosis.
(c) Through rigorous training.
(d) Through hand signals.

2. What does Boaz think causes the explosion on the street as the unit marches through the city?
(a) Sewer gas.
(b) Kids.
(c) An enemy attack.
(d) Faulty ammunition.

3. At the beginning of "Tent Rentals", the story has shifted locations. Where is the story now taking place?
(a) On Mercury.
(b) On Mars.
(c) On Earth.
(d) On Titan.

4. Who has invited Malachi to witness the materialization?
(a) Ransom Fern invited Malachi.
(b) Unk invited Malachi.
(c) Winston invited Malachi.
(d) Malachi wasn't invited.

5. When the company commander arrives for a surprise inspection, which soldier is slow in rising to attention?
(a) Boaz.
(b) Unk.
(c) Brackman.
(d) Salo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beatrice purchase just in case she is ever in Malachi's presence?

2. Since witnessing the last materialization, what has Malachi done?

3. What does Malachi's name mean?

4. What did the second visitor to Noel's room hope to secure from Noel?

5. Who is ultimately responsible for everything on Mars?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Malachi gain entrance to the estate in order to witness the materialization?

2. What functions do the antennas in the soldiers' brains serve?

3. What is United Hotcake?

4. As "Cheers in the Wirehouse" opens, the reader learns that Malachi Constant is using the name Jonah K. Rowley. Why?

5. Who is Martin Koradubian?

6. When Malachi's helicopter is landing on the corporation's headquarters building, what does the helicopter remind those on the ground of? Why?

7. According to the narrator, what did Earth's advance agents find in space that had already been found in abundance on Earth?

8. When the reader is first introduced to Ransom K. Fern, the reader learns that he will be quitting his job. Why does Ransom K. Fern quit?

9. What did the invitation to witness the materialization say regarding the relationship between Malachi and Winston? Why is this odd for Malachi?

10. Name five items that Boaz and Unk's invasion ship is carrying.

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