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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. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?
(a) On the common.
(b) His house.
(c) In a restaurant.
(d) The train station.

2. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?
(a) Bibury.
(b) Farnham.
(c) Chertsey.
(d) Clovelly.

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

4. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Ignoring him.
(b) Attacking him.
(c) Shooting at him.
(d) Pulling him into the pit.

5. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) It scares them.
(b) They are disappointed.
(c) They are indifferent to it.
(d) They are angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?

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

3. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?

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

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

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