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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 use to hit the curate in the head?
(a) A chair.
(b) An axe.
(c) A meat chopper.
(d) A cart wheel.

2. Why is the narrator's brother not very concerned about the narrator at first?
(a) He gets a letter from the narrator.
(b) He does not believe that the Martians exist.
(c) His wife tells him not to worry.
(d) The Martians have not been reported as a threat.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The curate drinks the last bottle of what beverage?

3. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

4. Why does Ogilvy think it is impossible for the Martians to become established on Earth?

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

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