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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. Where does the narrator hide when he sees The Thing?
(a) Behind a tree.
(b) In a ditch.
(c) Under a piece of wood.
(d) In a shack.

2. How does the narrator say many people were acting towards each other during the Martian invasion?
(a) Unkindly.
(b) Generously.
(c) Indifferently.
(d) Violently.

3. What is the Thunder Child?
(a) A horse.
(b) A warship.
(c) A tank.
(d) A large gun.

4. What does the narrator drink when he gets back to his house for the first time?
(a) Water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Bourbon.
(d) Vodka.

5. Who is Henderson?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An astronomer.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?

2. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?

3. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?

4. How does the narrator paddle across the river when he finds a small boat?

5. Where do the curate and narrator first see other people?

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