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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 15, What Had Happened in Surrey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Open it.
(b) Dig it out.
(c) Destroy it.
(d) Study it.

2. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) Ogilvy.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) Henderson.

3. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) The milkman.
(b) A reporter.
(c) His wife.
(d) A policeman.

4. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?
(a) He says that he will protect them.
(b) He accuses them of being insane.
(c) He does not believe them.
(d) He says that he saw the same things they did.

5. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The National Association of Astronomers.
(b) The Astronomical Exchange.
(c) Astronomers United.
(d) The League of Astronomers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

2. How does the Martian repair his tripod during the Martian attack of Surrey?

3. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

4. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?

5. How many Martians initially attack nearby the night after the narrator's brother is introduced?

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