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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 soldier do who pairs up with the narrator?
(a) He is a pilot.
(b) He is a general.
(c) He is a sailor.
(d) He is an artilleryman.

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

3. What does the Committee of Public Safety do when they meet the narrator's brother?
(a) Fight him.
(b) Give him money.
(c) Give him food.
(d) Steal his horse.

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

5. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The League of Astronomers.
(b) Astronomers United.
(c) The National Association of Astronomers.
(d) The Astronomical Exchange.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

2. Where does the Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?

3. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?

4. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?

5. As he watches from the ruined house, the narrator sees a Martian pick up a person from where?

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