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

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

3. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?
(a) A dead Martian.
(b) A new Martian weapon.
(c) The heat ray.
(d) A Martian tripod.

4. Who is Ogilvy?
(a) An astronomer.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A laborer.
(d) A philosopher.

5. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord Hilton.
(b) Lord Vasser.
(c) Lord William.
(d) Lord Harrington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldier and the narrator bring with them when they decide to leave Woking?

2. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

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

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

5. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?

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