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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. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) London.
(b) Chobham.
(c) Ottershaw.
(d) Woking.

2. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Five.
(d) One hundred.

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

4. About what time does the Martian attack of Surrey start?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 11:00 AM.
(c) 3:00 PM.
(d) 8:00 PM.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?

5. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?

(see the answer key)

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