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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the invaders' home planet?
(a) Serena.
(b) Carina.
(c) Marina.
(d) Bovina.
2. What does watching what the invaders do with the children remind George Greggson of?
(a) The fall of Saigon.
(b) The Trail of Tears.
(c) The Exodus.
(d) An old newsreel from one of the world wars.
3. What does Jennifer Greggson spend all her time doing?
(a) Daydreaming.
(b) Talking.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Levitating.
4. What does the device Karellen employs in the pressroom do?
(a) It turns the pressroom into a makeshift planetarium
(b) It discerns the thoughts of all those attending the press conference.
(c) It causes those attending the press conference to accept everything they hear from Karellen.
(d) It gives those attending the press conference the ability to see the future.
5. What drug does Jan Rodricks inject himself with after being smuggled on board the alien ship?
(a) Narcosamine.
(b) Novocaine.
(c) Darvocet.
(d) Sodium pentathol.
6. What bothers George Greggson about Jan Rodricks?
(a) That he will most likely die in space.
(b) That he will have information about the invaders that no one else has.
(c) That he will not return to Earth.
(d) That he will not age as much as those on Earth.
7. What alarms Jan Rodricks when he returns to Earth?
(a) The Earth is totally covered with water.
(b) The Earth is devoid of all vegetation.
(c) The Earth is dark with no man-made lights.
(d) Human bodies.
8. What do the remaining people on New Athens do after the aliens take action with their children?
(a) Plot how to rescue their children.
(b) Band together to defeat the aliens.
(c) Decide how to live the rest of their lives.
(d) Dissolve into mass warfare.
9. What comes as a warning prior to the tsunami?
(a) Police going door-to-door.
(b) A telepathic warning from the invaders.
(c) A siren.
(d) A television broadcast.
10. What does George Greggson's eldest son tell him about Thanthalteresco?
(a) He believes Thanthalteresco saved him from the tsunami.
(b) He believes Thanthalteresco is dying.
(c) He believes Thanthalteresco wants to kidnap him.
(d) He believes Thanthalteresco can read his mind.
11. How does Karellen explain mankind's understanding of the invaders' devil-like appearance to Jan Rodricks?
(a) The invaders can morph into whatever appearance they please.
(b) Some people throughout history have had psychic visions of the invaders.
(c) The invaders appeared to early man.
(d) The invaders made cave paintings of themselves in areas where humans had not yet emerged.
12. What does Thanthalteresco call George Greggson's oldest son?
(a) Subject One.
(b) Subject Hero.
(c) Subject Infinity.
(d) Subject Zero.
13. What island do George Greggson and Jean Morrel visit?
(a) New Albany.
(b) New Agribah.
(c) New Amsterdam.
(d) New Athens.
14. What do the aliens do while the children develop their powers?
(a) Observe from space.
(b) Tutor the children.
(c) Select the less-intelligent children for extermination.
(d) Mingle with the children.
15. How does Karellen explain the invaders' motives for occupying Earth?
(a) To protect Earth, because it will serve a higher purpose.
(b) To study humans and teach them the ways of the invaders.
(c) To remove humans from Earth, because Earth will ultimately be destroyed.
(d) To repopulate Earth with the invaders after humans are gone.
Short Answer Questions
1. The invaders were sent to Earth by:
2. What is unique about Karellen's planet?
3. According to Karellen, what will humans develop?
4. What do the aliens do with the children in Chapter 21?
5. What does Rashaverak tell George Greggson and Jean Morrel about their children?
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