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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 1, Under Food.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Beeping.
(b) Hammering.
(c) Crying.
(d) Drilling.

2. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Four hundred.
(d) One hundred

3. What does the narrator's brother think happens to the narrator after news reports of the Martians reach town?
(a) He thinks that the narrator must be hiding.
(b) He thinks that the narrator is coming for him.
(c) He thinks that the narrator escaped.
(d) He thinks that the narrator is dead.

4. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Attacking him.
(b) Pulling him into the pit.
(c) Ignoring him.
(d) Shooting at him.

5. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are captured by Martians.
(c) They are arrested.
(d) They are crushed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a curate?

2. Where does the narrator's brother live?

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

4. What is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?

5. What can survive the heat ray?

(see the answer key)

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