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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the captain end up when he floats off?

2. Where did Father Peregrine and his cousins see fireworks when he was a child?

3. Where is George planning to take his family for a vacation?

4. How much money did Lespere gamble away one time?

5. At the beginning of "Rocket Man", what time does the boy go to bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator in "The Last Night of the World" say that the world will end?

2. How does the narrator describe the Illustrated Man's tattoos?

3. What does David McClean recommend that George and Lydia do with the nursery?

4. How many races are on Mars according to the mayor of First Town?

5. Why does Doug's father ask him to promise never to be a rocket man?

6. How do the men walking through the Venusian rain carry a boat?

7. What dream did the narrator have in "The Last Night of the World"?

8. What happened during the third World War?

9. Why do Doug and his mother not want to see the sun at the end of the chapter?

10. Why has the white man come to Mars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the meaning of the idiom "the shoe is on the other foot" as it is used in the story "The Other Foot".

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast how Doug and his mother feel about space. Use examples from "The Rocket Man".

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how greed destroys happiness in "The Visitor". Use examples from the story.

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