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

2. What is a Deputation?
(a) A group of delegates.
(b) A group of police officers.
(c) A group of journalists.
(d) A group of soldiers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

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

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

4. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?

5. Who is Henderson?

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