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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. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) It scares them.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are disappointed.
(d) They are indifferent to it.

2. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The League of Astronomers.
(b) Astronomers United.
(c) The Astronomical Exchange.
(d) The National Association of Astronomers.

3. What does the narrator see in the sky as he goes to town on his way back from the inn?
(a) A lunar eclipse.
(b) A third cylinder falling.
(c) A military missile.
(d) A rocket.

4. How does the first man get into the pit?
(a) A Martian pulls him in.
(b) He slips on the edge.
(c) He jumps in.
(d) The crowd pushes him in.

5. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the gas jets?

2. Who is Marshall?

3. The narrator describes the Martians as being about the size of what animal?

4. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?

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