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

2. 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) Ignoring him.
(c) Attacking him.
(d) Shooting at him.

3. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The National Association of Astronomers.
(b) The Astronomical Exchange.
(c) Astronomers United.
(d) The League of Astronomers.

4. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Argue.
(b) Scream.
(c) Shoot into the pit.
(d) Tell the narrator to leave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

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

3. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?

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

5. How does the Martian repair his tripod during the Martian attack of Surrey?

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