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

2. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are captured by Martians.
(b) They are arrested.
(c) They are shot.
(d) They are crushed.

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

4. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Forty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Marshall?

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

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

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