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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 find to eat after he decides to leave the ruined house?
(a) A rodent.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Bread.
(d) Potatoes.

2. Who is Henderson?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) An astronomer.
(d) A journalist.

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

4. How is the soldier separated from his unit?
(a) His horse fell.
(b) He was discharged.
(c) He ran away.
(d) They abadoned him.

5. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Five.
(d) One hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disability does Henderson have?

2. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?

3. What color is the weed that seems to be everywhere around the ruined house?

4. What can survive the heat ray?

5. What color are the gas jets?

(see the answer key)

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