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

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

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?
(a) Clovelly.
(b) Farnham.
(c) Chertsey.
(d) Bibury.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?

2. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?

3. What color are the gas jets?

4. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

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

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