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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 color is the first Martian's skin?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Orange.
(d) Gray.

2. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?
(a) Twenty yards.
(b) Thirty yards.
(c) Ten yards.
(d) Five yards.

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

4. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Leatherhead.
(c) Westminster.
(d) London.

5. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?
(a) They ignore him.
(b) They laugh at him.
(c) They pry him for details.
(d) They push him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the first man get into the pit?

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

3. Why is the narrator eager to get back to Woking after taking his wife to the inn?

4. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

5. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

(see the answer key)

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