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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 much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?
(a) About twice as much.
(b) About three-quarters.
(c) About half.
(d) About one-quarter.

2. Where does the narrator hide when he sees The Thing?
(a) Behind a tree.
(b) Under a piece of wood.
(c) In a ditch.
(d) In a shack.

3. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Argue.
(b) Scream.
(c) Tell the narrator to leave.
(d) Shoot into the pit.

4. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) The Rocket.
(b) The Monster.
(c) It.
(d) The Thing.

5. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Fifty.

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

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

4. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?

5. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?

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