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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. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Ogilvy.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) Henderson.

2. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty.

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) Shooting at him.
(b) Pulling him into the pit.
(c) Attacking him.
(d) Ignoring him.

4. What are the four tripods carrying when they join the initial Martian attack on Surrey?
(a) Cages.
(b) Sharp blades.
(c) Rockets.
(d) Large black tubes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

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

3. Where does the Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?

4. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

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

(see the answer key)

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