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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. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Tell the narrator to leave.
(b) Argue.
(c) Scream.
(d) Shoot into the pit.

2. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?
(a) Leatherhead.
(b) Wincester.
(c) London.
(d) Woking.

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) Thirty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

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

5. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He runs into his wife.
(c) He steals a horse.
(d) He gets into a fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the curate doing when the narrator first meets him?

2. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

4. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

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

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