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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 does the Martian repair his tripod during the Martian attack of Surrey?
(a) He kills everyone nearby and then repairs it.
(b) He does not.
(c) The other Martians protect him.
(d) He can repair it from inside.

2. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?
(a) It shoots fire.
(b) It knocks down enemy vehicles.
(c) It emits toxic smoke.
(d) It works as a mounted gun on the tripods.

3. What saves some people from the first heat ray?
(a) A tree trunk.
(b) A metal shield.
(c) A mound of sand.
(d) A group of soldiers.

4. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?
(a) His house.
(b) In a restaurant.
(c) On the common.
(d) The train station.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?

2. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

3. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

4. Who is Marshall?

5. Where does the Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?

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