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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. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) London.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Oxford.

2. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) London.
(b) Ottershaw.
(c) Woking.
(d) Chobham.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

4. Who does not die in the heat ray?

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

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