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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 far are Hitchcock and Clemens from Earth?
(a) A million miles.
(b) A hundred thousand miles.
(c) A trillion miles.
(d) A billion miles.

2. When was Leonard Mark's mother in a blowup of London?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1945.

3. Where is the moon when the narrator finishes all the stories on the Illustrated Man?
(a) Near the eastern horizon.
(b) High in the sky.
(c) Half way up in the sky.
(d) Near the western horizon.

4. How many rocket ships have come to the waiting city, including the rocket that lands at the beginning of "The City"?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

5. How old is Mink?
(a) 7 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 6 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Clemens's girl live?

2. What were the people called who lived on the planet where the city waits?

3. How much money does Bodoni have saved?

4. In "The Concrete Mixer", what nationality is the young man in stories who usually thwarts a Martian invasion?

5. Whom does Poe want Bierce to warn about the rocket coming to Mars?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ettil believe that a Martian invasion of Earth will fail?

2. What time does the narrator finish seeing the stories on the Illustrated Man?

3. What choice does Ettil believe he has after landing on Earth?

4. Why did Hitchcock decide to go into space?

5. What did the city do to the captain of the rocket ship?

6. What does Hitchcock do at the end of the chapter?

7. How does Bodoni take all his children into space?

8. What does Drill promise the children if they help with the invasion?

9. Why are men exiled to Mars in "The Visitor"?

10. What does Braling 2 do with Braling?

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