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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. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Six days.
(d) Three weeks.

2. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Standing in line for food.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Boarding up their houses.
(d) Frantically evacuating.

3. How is the soldier separated from his unit?
(a) They abadoned him.
(b) He was discharged.
(c) He ran away.
(d) His horse fell.

4. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?
(a) He fights with them.
(b) A soldier helps him get away.
(c) He hides in the water.
(d) The Martians do not see him.

5. Why does the narrator say that he recounted the story of his brother?
(a) To show the evacuation of his brother's city.
(b) To show how brave his brother is.
(c) To show how much stronger he is than his brother.
(d) His own story was getting boring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?

2. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

3. Where is the first house in which the curate and narrator take refuge?

4. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

5. How do most people react to the invasion on the first Friday after the cylinder lands?

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