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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 15, What Had Happened in Surrey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are disappointed.
(b) They are indifferent to it.
(c) It scares them.
(d) They are angry.

3. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) The milkman.
(b) A reporter.
(c) His wife.
(d) A policeman.

4. How many Martians initially attack nearby the night after the narrator's brother is introduced?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Boarding up their houses.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Frantically evacuating.
(d) Standing in line for food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "sapper?"

2. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?

3. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

4. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

5. Why do the narrator and soldier decide to take a long route when leaving Woking?

(see the answer key)

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