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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 the name of the Astronomer Royal?
(a) Stent.
(b) Silas.
(c) Smith.
(d) Stevens.

2. What saves some people from the first heat ray?
(a) A mound of sand.
(b) A tree trunk.
(c) A metal shield.
(d) A group of soldiers.

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

4. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Open it.
(b) Study it.
(c) Destroy it.
(d) Dig it out.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

4. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?

5. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?

(see the answer key)

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