View a FREE sample

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. How long do the curate and the narrator stay in the first house?
(a) One week.
(b) One day.
(c) Two days.
(d) Seven hours.

2. Who is Marshall?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A tobacconist.
(d) A farmer.

3. How much does the curate eat when he and the narrator are trapped in the ruined house?
(a) About half of the food.
(b) Nothing.
(c) More than his share.
(d) Only a little food.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?

2. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?

3. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

4. What are the people coming back from the south of London saying?

5. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:

(see the answer key)

This section contains 255 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample