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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) Henderson.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) Ogilvy.

2. Who is Marshall?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A tobacconist.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?

4. What is a "sapper?"

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

(see the answer key)

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