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

2. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?
(a) News of the Day.
(b) The Daily Chronicle.
(c) The Post-Dispatch.
(d) The Woking Journal.

3. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Throwing rocks at it.
(b) Yelling at it.
(c) Trying to open it.
(d) Daring each other to touch it.

4. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?
(a) Temperature cooling.
(b) Vegetation.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Moisture.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?

4. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

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

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