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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 6, The Work of Fifteen Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?
(a) They become angry at the visitors.
(b) They insist on calling the military for help.
(c) They think that the visitors must be crazy.
(d) They become very alarmed.

2. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Trying to open it.
(b) Daring each other to touch it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Yelling at it.

3. About what time does the Martian attack of Surrey start?
(a) 3:00 PM.
(b) 8:00 PM.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 11:00 AM.

4. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?
(a) The trains are not running.
(b) He does not want to go.
(c) He has to go to work.
(d) He does not have a horse.

5. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?
(a) Leatherhead.
(b) Westminster.
(c) London.
(d) Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say many people were acting towards each other during the Martian invasion?

2. Why is the narrator's brother not very concerned about the narrator at first?

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

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

5. What does the Martian tentacle reach into the ruined house and take?

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