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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 5, The Stillness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator find food in the ruined house after the curate dies?
(a) He doesn't.
(b) The scullery.
(c) The basement.
(d) The backyard.

2. What does the curate spend most days doing just after the house is ruined?
(a) Praying.
(b) Looking for food.
(c) Crying.
(d) Planning his escape.

3. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?
(a) He says that he will protect them.
(b) He does not believe them.
(c) He says that he saw the same things they did.
(d) He accuses them of being insane.

4. How much does the curate eat when he and the narrator are trapped in the ruined house?
(a) Only a little food.
(b) About half of the food.
(c) More than his share.
(d) Nothing.

5. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?
(a) The train station.
(b) In a restaurant.
(c) On the common.
(d) His house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the soldier hide until meeting the narrator?

2. What is a "sapper?"

3. The narrator describes the Martians as being about the size of what animal?

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

5. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?

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