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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 is a Deputation?
(a) A group of journalists.
(b) A group of soldiers.
(c) A group of police officers.
(d) A group of delegates.

2. What does the narrator's brother here about London as he travels with the two women?
(a) The military has killed the Martians there.
(b) The Martians have burned it to the ground.
(c) The Martians have taken it over.
(d) The military is on the way there.

3. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?
(a) It is hidden.
(b) It is invisible.
(c) It is made of unknown materials.
(d) It does not exist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?

2. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?

3. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?

4. What does the narrator's brother study in college?

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

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