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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 9, Wreckage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?
(a) He is selling newspapers.
(b) He is alarmed about the Martians.
(c) He is trying to cause trouble.
(d) He is just trying to get attention.

2. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Leatherhead.
(d) London.

3. Why do the narrator and the curate decide to leave the riverbank?
(a) Soldiers tell them to leave.
(b) They want to find other people.
(c) They hear gunfire.
(d) The Martians are getting closer.

4. What does the narrator's brother study in college?
(a) Law.
(b) Literature.
(c) Education.
(d) Medicine.

5. How does the narrator say many people were acting towards each other during the Martian invasion?
(a) Violently.
(b) Unkindly.
(c) Indifferently.
(d) Generously.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

2. What does the narrator use to hit the curate in the head?

3. What are the men trying to do when they attack the two women in the cart?

4. What does the narrator say could kill all of the Martians, as he tries to reassure his wife?

5. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

(see the answer key)

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