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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 color is the first Martian's skin?
(a) Orange.
(b) Gray.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Pink.

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

3. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) They are angry.
(c) It scares them.
(d) They are disappointed.

4. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?
(a) A heart.
(b) A white flag.
(c) A British flag.
(d) A peace sign.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

2. Who is Ogilvy?

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

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

5. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?

(see the answer key)

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