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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 7, How I Reached Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?
(a) Neon.
(b) Helium.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Hydrogen.

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

4. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?
(a) A man.
(b) A strange creature.
(c) An animal.
(d) A Martian invader.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?

2. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

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

4. Who does not die in the heat ray?

5. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?

(see the answer key)

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