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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 6, The Work of Fifteen Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?
(a) He has to go to work.
(b) He does not have a horse.
(c) He does not want to go.
(d) The trains are not running.

2. The curate drinks the last bottle of what beverage?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Soda.
(d) Wine.

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

4. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Calmly packing their things.
(b) Standing in line for food.
(c) Frantically evacuating.
(d) Boarding up their houses.

5. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Bristol.
(c) London.
(d) Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?

2. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

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

5. Where do the government officials go when the Martians attack London?

(see the answer key)

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