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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. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?
(a) Leatherhead.
(b) Westminster.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) London.

2. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Drawings.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Souvenirs.
(d) Lemonade.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Martians initially attack nearby the night after the narrator's brother is introduced?

2. Who is Marshall?

3. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?

4. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?

5. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

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