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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. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?
(a) Laughter.
(b) A scream.
(c) A cry for help.
(d) A confused noise.

2. What comes out of the pit after the Deputation signals the Martians?
(a) Green smoke.
(b) Fire.
(c) A missle.
(d) A Martian.

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

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

5. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?
(a) It throws him off.
(b) Someone steals it.
(c) It falls and breaks its neck.
(d) It runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?

2. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?

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?

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

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

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