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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 is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) War.
(c) The underworld.
(d) Love.

2. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?
(a) The Daily Chronicle.
(b) The Woking Journal.
(c) The Post-Dispatch.
(d) News of the Day.

3. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(b) Message Received From Mars.
(c) Evacuate Immediately.
(d) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.

4. How far is Mars from Earth?
(a) 20 million miles.
(b) 35 million miles.
(c) 15 million miles.
(d) 45 million miles.

5. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?
(a) The Martians move very slowly.
(b) The Martians are very small.
(c) The Martians do not seem very dangerous.
(d) The Martians are very weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?

2. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?

3. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

4. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?

5. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

(see the answer key)

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