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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 is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?
(a) He is alarmed about the Martians.
(b) He is just trying to get attention.
(c) He is trying to cause trouble.
(d) He is selling newspapers.

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

3. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) One.

4. How many Martians initially attack nearby the night after the narrator's brother is introduced?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Message Received From Mars.
(b) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.
(c) Evacuate Immediately.
(d) Invaders from Mars Discovered!

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?

2. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

3. What does the narrator's brother study in college?

4. Who is Henderson?

5. What does the soldier do who pairs up with the narrator?

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