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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 10, In the Storm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?
(a) A British flag.
(b) A white flag.
(c) A heart.
(d) A peace sign.

2. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord Hilton.
(b) Lord Harrington.
(c) Lord Vasser.
(d) Lord William.

3. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) The milkman.
(b) His wife.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A reporter.

4. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Drawings.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Souvenirs.

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) A soldier.
(b) Henderson.
(c) Ogilvy.
(d) A construction worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

2. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?

3. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

4. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?

5. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?

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