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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Tom lead Reba and Roger to show them the spacecraft?
(a) To the military base.
(b) To a picture in a book.
(c) To the terrace.
(d) To the television.

2. In what year was Kreton expecting to land?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1661.
(d) 1961.

3. Where does Conrad claim he needs to go as he and Ellen sit on the terrace?
(a) Home to his mother.
(b) To work.
(c) Home to feed his goat.
(d) To school.

4. What piece of equipment does Powers ask about in terms of the ship?
(a) The wings.
(b) The doors.
(c) The instrument panel.
(d) The lights.

5. How do Tom Powers and Roger know one another?
(a) They went to grade school together.
(b) They went to Harvard Business School together.
(c) They went to Bryn together.
(d) They went to high school together.

6. Who is in the living room at the opening of the play?
(a) Reba and Roger.
(b) Tom and Reba.
(c) Ellen and Roger.
(d) Roger and Tom.

7. What causes Reba to be suspicious of Ellen and Conrad's activities?
(a) Ellen's skirt isn't straight.
(b) Conrad's shirt is off.
(c) The two are sweating.
(d) Ellen is undressed.

8. What does Kreton admit he can do with time?
(a) Alter it.
(b) Live in it.
(c) Make it go backward.
(d) Travel through it.

9. What is above the television in the study?
(a) A spaceship.
(b) A plant.
(c) A globe.
(d) A lamp.

10. Where does Conrad sign his name as Ulysses Grant?
(a) His license.
(b) On his army registration form.
(c) In the bar.
(d) At a hotel.

11. What does Ellen notice Roger has in the television appearance?
(a) A new hair piece.
(b) New shoes.
(c) A new suit.
(d) A new tie,

12. Which uniform does Kreton say he prefers?
(a) The blue ones.
(b) The ones with buttons.
(c) The pink ones.
(d) The ones with feathers.

13. What is on Reba's mind at the end of Act 1?
(a) Her husband's hair piece.
(b) How handsome Kreton is.
(c) Her daughter's health.
(d) Whether there will be enough chicken.

14. What nickname does the aide think of when he thinks of Powers?
(a) Old Iron Hand.
(b) Old Lead Hand.
(c) Old Iron Ass.
(d) Old Lead Ass.

15. What Act will Roger be indicted under if he leaks the story of aliens to America?
(a) The Priority One Act.
(b) The Panama Act.
(c) The Alien Act.
(d) The Revised Espionage Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kreton seem to affectionately call the people in the house?

2. How many other members of Kreton's race have visited Earth?

3. What does Kreton note he has decided he will do to the world?

4. To what does Kreton compare his head vibrations?

5. What does Ellen tell the family she and Conrad are doing in Richmond?

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