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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 say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Uneasy.
(c) Scared.
(d) Angry.

2. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are angry.
(b) It scares them.
(c) They are disappointed.
(d) They are indifferent to it.

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

4. What color is the first Martian's skin?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Gray.
(c) Pink.
(d) Orange.

5. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the soldier do who pairs up with the narrator?

3. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

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

5. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?

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