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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 far is Mars from the sun according to the narrator?
(a) 140,000 miles.
(b) 160 million miles.
(c) 160,000 miles.
(d) 140 million miles.

2. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Drawings.
(d) Souvenirs.

3. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?
(a) Meteorites.
(b) Missiles.
(c) People.
(d) Rockets.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?

2. How does the first man get into the pit?

3. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

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

5. What color are the gas jets?

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