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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He panics.
(b) He heads back to the crash site.
(c) He decides to hide.
(d) He makes plans to leave town.
2. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?
(a) About one-quarter.
(b) About half.
(c) About twice as much.
(d) About three-quarters.
3. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) The Thing.
(b) The Rocket.
(c) It.
(d) The Monster.
4. What is a "sapper?"
(a) A man who makes syrup.
(b) A member of the Navy.
(c) A bar owner.
(d) A skilled front-line soldier.
5. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He gets into a fight.
(c) He runs into his wife.
(d) He steals a horse.
Short Answer Questions
1. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?
2. Who is Henderson?
3. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
4. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
5. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does a group of people attempt to do just before the Heat-Ray? Why doesn't this work?
2. When the narrator first meets the artilleryman, what does the soldier say happened to his unit?
3. What does the narrator plan to do when he hears the dog, and what does this show about his situation?
4. What does the black tube weapon reveal about the Martian's intentions?
5. Why are the milkman and the train reassuring to the narrator after the first heat-ray?
6. What kind of newspaper coverage does the cylinder receive on the second day? What might this predict?
7. How does the narrator attempt to reassure himself and his wife when he returns home after the first heat-ray?
8. Why might the narrator have included the story about his brother?
9. What new weapon do the Martians reveal in Surrey? What does this reveal about Martian technology?
10. How do people react when Ogilvy runs to the village for help, and why?
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