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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12, What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?
(a) The Martians do not see him.
(b) He fights with them.
(c) A soldier helps him get away.
(d) He hides in the water.

2. What does the narrator say could kill all of the Martians, as he tries to reassure his wife?
(a) A shell.
(b) A firing squad.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A tank.

3. What is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?
(a) Love.
(b) War.
(c) The underworld.
(d) Wisdom.

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

5. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The League of Astronomers.
(b) The Astronomical Exchange.
(c) The National Association of Astronomers.
(d) Astronomers United.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saves some people from the first heat ray?

2. What can survive the heat ray?

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

4. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?

5. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?

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