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

2. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Trying to open it.
(b) Daring each other to touch it.
(c) Yelling at it.
(d) Throwing rocks at it.

3. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord Hilton.
(b) Lord Vasser.
(c) Lord Harrington.
(d) Lord William.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?

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

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

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

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