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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. What did Saul Williams and another sick man discuss six months ago?

2. What equipment in Bodoni's junk yard broke down last week?

3. What time does Mink say zero hour will be?

4. What did the Captain in "The Exiles" order at the last minute from the Historical Museum?

5. Where does the narrator run to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Saul Williams kidnap Leonard Mark?

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

5. Where else are children playing Invasion?

6. What does Mr. Machen say would happen to the banned authors if all their works were destroyed?

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

8. Why must clients of Marionettes, Inc., be pledged to secrecy?

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

10. How did William Travis kill Mr. Simms?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the fireworks Father Peregrine saw as a child to the beings on Mars. Use examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from "The Exiles", discuss how technology stifles imagination.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast what memories mean to Hitchcock and to Clemens in "No Particular Night or Morning".

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