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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 10, In the Storm.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?
(a) Scared.
(b) Uneasy.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Angry.

3. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

4. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord William.
(b) Lord Harrington.
(c) Lord Hilton.
(d) Lord Vasser.

5. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) It.
(b) The Monster.
(c) The Thing.
(d) The Rocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

2. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

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

5. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

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