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

2. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?
(a) They become very alarmed.
(b) They insist on calling the military for help.
(c) They become angry at the visitors.
(d) They think that the visitors must be crazy.

3. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?
(a) A faint stirring.
(b) Someone banging on the walls.
(c) Singing.
(d) Screaming.

4. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?
(a) A British flag.
(b) A peace sign.
(c) A heart.
(d) A white flag.

5. Who does not die in the heat ray?
(a) Ogilvy.
(b) Stent.
(c) Henderson.
(d) A Martian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator react when the first Martian falls out of the cylinder?

2. Who is Ogilvy?

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

4. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?

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

(see the answer key)

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