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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. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) The train station.
(c) On the common.
(d) His house.

2. Who is Henderson?
(a) A blacksmith.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An astronomer.

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Thirty.

4. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Evacuate Immediately.
(b) Message Received From Mars.
(c) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(d) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.

5. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?
(a) Wincester.
(b) Leatherhead.
(c) London.
(d) Woking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

2. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?

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

4. Who is Ogilvy?

5. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?

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