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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. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?
(a) Henderson.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) Ogilvy.

2. What color are the gas jets?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?

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

3. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?

4. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?

5. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

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