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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. The narrator describes the Martians as being about the size of what animal?
(a) A dog.
(b) A lion.
(c) A cat.
(d) A bear.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

2. What can survive the heat ray?

3. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

4. Who does not die in the heat ray?

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

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