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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. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?
(a) A heart.
(b) A British flag.
(c) A peace sign.
(d) A white flag.

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) Clovelly.
(d) Chertsey.

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

4. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) Forty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twelve.

5. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Beeping.
(b) Drilling.
(c) Crying.
(d) Hammering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not die in the heat ray?

2. What saves some people from the first heat ray?

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

4. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?

5. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

(see the answer key)

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