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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 type of trip does Kreton say the trip to Earth was?
(a) A pleasure trip.
(b) A social trip.
(c) A business trip.
(d) An educational trip.

2. What does Kreton put around the ship?
(a) A moat.
(b) A ring of fire.
(c) An electric fence.
(d) An invisible wall.

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

4. What does Conrad note Ellen can do at the same time as making love?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Eat.
(c) Watch television.
(d) Eavesdrop.

5. What does Powers send his Captain to go do before he speaks to Kreton?
(a) Eat dinner.
(b) Dissect the alien.
(c) Go for pizza.
(d) Examine the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does Tom lead Reba and Roger to show them the spacecraft?

2. What adjective does Kreton use to describe hydrogen?

3. What nickname does the aide think of when he thinks of Powers?

4. What is above the television in the study?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Roger annoyed with Conrad and Ellen?

2. Describe the interview with Powers by Roger.

3. Explain where Kreton lives.

4. Explain why Kreton knows being found by Delton 4 would be difficult.

5. Summarize the argument of Roger against the existence of UFOs.

6. What happened when Conrad and Ellen tried to check into a hotel?

7. Kreton notes that war is the specialty of humans. Is this true?

8. What is Roger afraid Kreton truly represents? What is Kreton's reply to this?

9. How does raising the rifles in the world help to start a war?

10. Kreton states he envies humans for being imperfect. Why do you think he says that?

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