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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 Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?
(a) London.
(b) Weybridge.
(c) Shepperton.
(d) Surrey.

2. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.
(b) Evacuate Immediately.
(c) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(d) Message Received From Mars.

3. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Pulling him into the pit.
(b) Shooting at him.
(c) Attacking him.
(d) Ignoring him.

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

5. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Study it.
(b) Destroy it.
(c) Open it.
(d) Dig it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

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

3. What saves some people from the first heat ray?

4. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?

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

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