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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. What does the narrator use to hit the curate in the head?
(a) A meat chopper.
(b) A cart wheel.
(c) A chair.
(d) An axe.

2. As he watches from the ruined house, the narrator sees a Martian pick up a person from where?
(a) A house.
(b) A bush.
(c) A cage.
(d) A cart.

3. What saves some people from the first heat ray?
(a) A mound of sand.
(b) A metal shield.
(c) A tree trunk.
(d) A group of soldiers.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since the soldier has eaten when he first teams up with the narrator?

2. What comes out of the pit after the Deputation signals the Martians?

3. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?

4. Who is Henderson?

5. Why does the narrator say that he recounted the story of his brother?

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