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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. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?
(a) Ten yards.
(b) Five yards.
(c) Twenty yards.
(d) Thirty yards.

2. Who does not die in the heat ray?
(a) A Martian.
(b) Stent.
(c) Ogilvy.
(d) Henderson.

3. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?
(a) A faint stirring.
(b) Singing.
(c) Someone banging on the walls.
(d) Screaming.

4. What does the word "canard" mean?
(a) A card game.
(b) A false story.
(c) A distraction.
(d) A worthless object.

5. What does the narrator start calling the tripods when he travels with the curate?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Death machines.
(c) Octopi.
(d) Martian fighting machines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's brother think happens to the narrator after news reports of the Martians reach town?

3. What can survive the heat ray?

4. What saves some people from the first heat ray?

5. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?

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