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

2. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) A construction worker.
(b) Ogilvy.
(c) Henderson.
(d) A soldier.

3. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?
(a) He fights with them.
(b) The Martians do not see him.
(c) A soldier helps him get away.
(d) He hides in the water.

4. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?
(a) He says that he saw the same things they did.
(b) He accuses them of being insane.
(c) He says that he will protect them.
(d) He does not believe them.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the four tripods carrying when they join the initial Martian attack on Surrey?

3. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?

4. What direction do the Martians head after they attack Surrey?

5. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

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