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How Well Do You Know "The Illustrated Man"?

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How Well Do You Know The Illustrated Man game quiz
"This is a 20-question quiz about Ray Bradbury's collection of futuristic short stories. Eighteen are questions about the plots, plus two other questions relating to the book. (Spoilers are everywhere, by the way.) Enjoy!"

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1. Which of the following is the closest plot to "The Veldt"?
    A family lives in a futuristic house with a nursery that serves as a window to the kids' imagination.
    A family heads to the museum and talks about how dumb, stupid and clueless people of the past (1950's people) are!
    A family goes back to Earth and finds out that everything (oceans included) has turned into a dry savanna.
    A family mysteriously disappears during a time travel trip gone wrong.


2. In the story, "Kaleidoscope," which of the following actually happens?
    A rocket explodes and the people in it slowly drift around in space dying a slow but awesome death.
    An experimental drug is given to a group of teens who think they are in space battling Plutonians and saving the world.
    A group of space travelers land on the beautiful planet of Daffron, where everything is an illusion and everybody is a mirage.
    A family of cockroaches sits down at their front porch observing the atomic wars slowly devastating the human world.


3. Which group of people was sent to Mars twenty years ago in the story, "The Other Foot"?
    The bishops and priests
    The black people
    The diseased and the old
    The criminals and convicts


4. Among Bradbury's various futuristic recurring ideas, which one is highlighted in the story, "The Highway"?
    Alien invasion
    Space travel
    Atomic war
    Time travel


5. In "The Man," a group of space travelers arrive at a city in a distant planet and get an unexpected welcome. As a matter of fact, they don't get welcomed at all! Why?
    A man came before them and wiped out the entire city with an incurable plague.
    A group of space travelers came before them and told everyone that the next group of travelers arriving would invade their city.
    A man came before them and brought overwhelming peace and serenity to the city
    A man came before them and turned the denizens of the city into mindless robots.


6. Where did "The Long Rain" take place?
    Earth
    Jupiter
    Mars
    Venus


7. What is the sad event that transpired by the end of the story, "The Rocket Man"?
    The rocket man came home to his family and found out that they have forgotten everything about him.
    The rocket man died when his ship fell in the sun.
    The rocket man stayed behind the dying planet from another star system to save his family.
    The rocket man went to one of Saturn's moons and missed his son's birthday down there at Earth.


8. What do the aliens in "The Fire Balloons" do that assured Peregrine that they were not bad creatures?
    They saved Peregrine from dying when he jumped off the cliff.
    They embraced Peregrine and made him remember happy memories from his childhood.
    They forced an approaching meteor to ricochet back to space.
    They went to church.


9. How did everyone know that it's their last night on the world in "The Last Night of the World?"
    Nobody knew it was their last night in the world.
    The seven deadly plagues occurred.
    Everyone had a dream about it.
    A strong entity came one day and told everyone.


10. Who were "The Exiles"?
    The presidents of the United States
    Authors of books introducing ghosts, goblins, witches and mythical creatures
    People who couldn't start a space rocket
    The scientists who invented the machine that gave everyone in the world an immortal life


11. In "No Particular Night or Morning," what has nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, a lot of empty nothings between and you falling in the middle of nothing?
    Space
    Nothing
    Tomorrow
    Life


12. What is "The Fox and the Forest", in a nutshell?
    A couple hides in the past to escape taking a role in the present world's war and infamy.
    A young seven-year-old girl is the lab mouse of a confidential organization working on a new way to create a new army of merciless soldiers.
    A guy tries to escape being a part of Earth's plan to invade the peaceful planet of Mars.
    A pregnant woman realizes the faith of her unborn child and must do the ultimate decision, which is to terminate her pregnancy before it's too late.


13. What is the power of "The Visitor"?
    He has the power to change faces and be somebody else.
    He has the power to cure the sicknesses of the people in Mars just by wiping his tear on them.
    He has the power to create a virtual vivid world based on someone's memories.
    He has the power to bring you back to a time in your past where you could watch yourself once more.


14. In "The Concrete Mixer," Ettil is one of the many Martians drafted to invade the Earth. By the end of the story, what happens to Ettil?
    He gets shot by an Earth boy when he tries to save the boy's sister.
    He gets run over by a car driven by rowdy teens.
    He gets blasted back to Mars alone after the Martians' devastating defeat.
    He marries an Earth woman and lives a normal life as a half-Martian half-Earthling.


15. In "Marionettes, Inc.," what are the two things that Braling's marionette wanted to do?
    Get away from Marionettes, Inc. and ride a rocket
    Die and never deal with humans again
    Assume Braling's life in a different continent and get married to Braling's wife's marionette
    Go to Rio and have Braling's wife all to himself


16. "The City" is a city built with one intent: to make the Earthlings pay for wiping out the race that thrived in that planet before. How is it planning on doing that?
    Sending radioactive signals to the Earth heard only by women and children- hypnotizing them
    Turning the city's planet into a meteor targeted towards Earth
    Dropping bombs of disease culture to Earth
    Attracting Earthling rocket men to the city until the city could poison them


17. What is the game all kids around the world are playing in "Zero Hour?"
    Blitzkrieg
    Zero Hour
    Invasion
    Destruction


18. What is the story behind "The Rocket?"
    A serial killer is found writing a book about himself on a rocket.
    An underprivileged man sends his kids to space.
    A Martian goes inside an Earthling's rocket and marvels.
    A child aspires to ride a rocket one day!


19. What is the fate of the guy who allowed the Illustrated Man to sleep in his place?
    He will meet a woman and they will live happily ever after.
    He would be strangled by the Illustrated Man.
    He will die of leprosy and nobody would dare talk to him.
    He would become a part of the tattoos in the Illustrated Man's chest.


20. Which of the following deaths did not happen / were not implied in the "Illustrated Man"?
    Devoured by lions
    Baked in a microwave oven
    Shot with a gun
    Wiped out by a cosmic storm


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Compiled May 23 13