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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 4, The Cylinder Opens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?
(a) A scream.
(b) Laughter.
(c) A cry for help.
(d) A confused noise.

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) It.
(b) The Thing.
(c) The Rocket.
(d) The Monster.

3. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
(a) Language.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Biology.

4. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) A construction worker.
(b) Henderson.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Ogilvy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

2. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

3. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?

4. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?

5. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

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