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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 must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?
(a) Temperature cooling.
(b) Vegetation.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Moisture.

2. What disability does Henderson have?
(a) He cannot walk.
(b) He has a speech impediment.
(c) He cannot move one of his arms.
(d) He is deaf in one ear.

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

4. What color are the gas jets?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

5. How does the narrator react when the first Martian falls out of the cylinder?
(a) He yells for help.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He stays where he is.
(d) He tries to fight it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?

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

3. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?

4. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

5. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

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