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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. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?
(a) Leatherhead.
(b) Wincester.
(c) Woking.
(d) London.

2. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Trying to open it.
(b) Yelling at it.
(c) Daring each other to touch it.
(d) Throwing rocks at it.

3. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1895.

4. How is the soldier separated from his unit?
(a) He was discharged.
(b) His horse fell.
(c) They abadoned him.
(d) He ran away.

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) Ogilvy.
(b) Henderson.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) A soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?

2. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

3. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

4. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?

5. What does the word "canard" mean?

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