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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 does the narrator start calling the tripods when he travels with the curate?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Martian fighting machines.
(c) Death machines.
(d) Octopi.

3. Where is the first house in which the curate and narrator take refuge?
(a) Halliford.
(b) Leatherhead.
(c) Twickenham.
(d) Kew.

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

5. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Six days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Seven days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

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

4. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

5. What color is the weed that seems to be everywhere around the ruined house?

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