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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 7, How I Reached Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are captured by Martians.
(b) They are crushed.
(c) They are shot.
(d) They are arrested.

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

3. Who is Ogilvy?
(a) A reporter.
(b) A laborer.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) An astronomer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not die in the heat ray?

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

3. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?

4. How far is Mars from the sun according to the narrator?

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

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