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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 4, The Cylinder Opens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?
(a) Vegetation.
(b) Moisture.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Temperature cooling.

2. What color are the gas jets?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

3. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Six.

4. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Language.
(d) Biology.

5. What disability does Henderson have?
(a) He has a speech impediment.
(b) He is deaf in one ear.
(c) He cannot move one of his arms.
(d) He cannot walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?

2. The narrator describes the Martians as being about the size of what animal?

3. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

4. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?

5. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

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