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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 4, The Death of the Curate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's brother think happens to the narrator after news reports of the Martians reach town?
(a) He thinks that the narrator must be hiding.
(b) He thinks that the narrator is coming for him.
(c) He thinks that the narrator is dead.
(d) He thinks that the narrator escaped.

2. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?
(a) The trains are not running.
(b) He does not want to go.
(c) He has to go to work.
(d) He does not have a horse.

3. The curate drinks the last bottle of what beverage?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Soda.

4. What does the narrator say could kill all of the Martians, as he tries to reassure his wife?
(a) A firing squad.
(b) A shell.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A tank.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?

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

3. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?

4. Where does the narrator's brother live?

5. What are the people coming back from the south of London saying?

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