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

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

3. Who is Ogilvy?
(a) A laborer.
(b) An astronomer.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A reporter.

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

5. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1890.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?

2. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?

3. What disability does Henderson have?

4. What is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?

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

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