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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 8, Friday Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?
(a) They become very alarmed.
(b) They think that the visitors must be crazy.
(c) They insist on calling the military for help.
(d) They become angry at the visitors.

2. Who is Henderson?
(a) A blacksmith.
(b) A journalist.
(c) An astronomer.
(d) A doctor.

3. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) London.
(b) Woking.
(c) Chobham.
(d) Ottershaw.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a Deputation?

3. How do most people react to the invasion on the first Friday after the cylinder lands?

4. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?

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

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