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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 5, The Stillness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?
(a) A cry for help.
(b) A confused noise.
(c) A scream.
(d) Laughter.

2. What does the Committee of Public Safety do when they meet the narrator's brother?
(a) Give him food.
(b) Steal his horse.
(c) Fight him.
(d) Give him money.

3. From the ruined house, the narrator sees that the Martian "tripods" actually have how many legs?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

4. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Language.
(d) Biology.

5. What does the narrator's brother decide to do when he hears that food may be available if he waits?
(a) Demand food from other evacuees.
(b) Go find food.
(c) Wait.
(d) Keep going.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ultimately kills the men who are attacking the two women?

2. What is a Deputation?

3. What does the curate spend most days doing just after the house is ruined?

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

5. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?

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