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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 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.

2. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?
(a) It is made of unknown materials.
(b) It is hidden.
(c) It does not exist.
(d) It is invisible.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldier and the narrator bring with them when they decide to leave Woking?

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

3. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

4. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:

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

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