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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 8, Friday Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?
(a) News of the Day.
(b) The Daily Chronicle.
(c) The Post-Dispatch.
(d) The Woking Journal.

2. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?
(a) A strange creature.
(b) An animal.
(c) A man.
(d) A Martian invader.

3. Who is Henderson?
(a) A blacksmith.
(b) A doctor.
(c) An astronomer.
(d) A journalist.

4. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Drilling.
(b) Beeping.
(c) Crying.
(d) Hammering.

5. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) Chobham.
(b) Ottershaw.
(c) Woking.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disability does Henderson have?

2. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

3. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?

4. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

5. What two emotions does the narrator experience after the first Martian appears?

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