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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. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?
(a) They think that the visitors must be crazy.
(b) They insist on calling the military for help.
(c) They become very alarmed.
(d) They become angry at the visitors.

2. Why do the narrator and the curate decide to leave the riverbank?
(a) They hear gunfire.
(b) They want to find other people.
(c) The Martians are getting closer.
(d) Soldiers tell them to leave.

3. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?
(a) A river.
(b) The common.
(c) Under London.
(d) The ocean.

4. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Open it.
(c) Dig it out.
(d) Study it.

5. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?
(a) They laugh at him.
(b) They push him.
(c) They pry him for details.
(d) They ignore him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ogilvy?

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

3. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?

4. How does the Martian repair his tripod during the Martian attack of Surrey?

5. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?

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