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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. What do the two towns compete in building in the tale "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind?"
(a) Walls.
(b) Spaceships.
(c) Castles.
(d) Parade floats.

2. What is the name of the woman Water meets?
(a) Annabella.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Gueneviere.
(d) Genevieve.

3. What is the name of the story's narrator?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) Sam.

4. What is the name of the boy in "The Man Upstairs?"
(a) Douglas.
(b) Rupert.
(c) William.
(d) George.

5. What is the name of the protagonist in "The Skeleton?"
(a) Charlie.
(b) Bert.
(c) Harris.
(d) Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation of the wife's dies during the story?

2. What ailment strikes down one of the two men?

3. In "The Off Season" what is the name of the couple that opens a store?

4. What is the term used for the lifelike androids?

5. What is the name of the widower in "The Playground?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the situation that plagues Timothy Elliot in "Homecoming." Why does Timothy feel like an outcast?

2. What does Father Peregrine discover when he examines the morality of the Martians?

3. In "The Playground" Charles Underhill objects when his sister Carol wants to take Charles' three-year-old son Jim to a playground. Why does Charles object? What is the outcome of the story?

4. What happens to Uncle Einar as he returns to from the Elliot family reunion? How does the event change Einar's life?

5. Describe the main plot of "The Coffin."

6. What becomes of Richard because of his jealousy?

7. What is the main issue with Mr. Harris, the protagonist in "Skeleton?"

8. What are the marital issues for Smith and Braling in "Marionettes, Inc.?" What is the solution chosen by the two men?

9. In "The Last Night of the World" several people have the same dream. What is the dream and what is the combined reaction of the people?

10. What do the main characters in "The Next In Line" discover when they go to Mexico? What is their reaction?

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