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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 often does the narrator say new cylinders are falling just before he meets the curate?
(a) Every hour.
(b) Every week.
(c) Every other day.
(d) Every day.

2. What happens to the house near Kew when the narrator and curate take refuge there?
(a) A cylinder falls next to it and destroys part of it.
(b) A Martian tripod destroys part of it.
(c) The curate knocks out some of the windows.
(d) It is so old that boards start to fall off of the walls.

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?
(a) Clovelly.
(b) Chertsey.
(c) Farnham.
(d) Bibury.

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

5. What does the soldier do who pairs up with the narrator?
(a) He is a general.
(b) He is a pilot.
(c) He is an artilleryman.
(d) He is a sailor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator's brother not very concerned about the narrator at first?

2. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?

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

4. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?

5. What is the Thunder Child?

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