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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12, What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a Deputation?
(a) A group of journalists.
(b) A group of delegates.
(c) A group of soldiers.
(d) A group of police officers.

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

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

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

5. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He gets into a fight.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He steals a horse.
(d) He runs into his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

2. What is a "sapper?"

3. Who is Henderson?

4. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?

5. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

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