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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. Why is the narrator's brother forced to abandon his first mode of transportation?
(a) He borrowed it and has to give it back.
(b) Someone demands that he give it to them.
(c) It breaks.
(d) He loses it.

2. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are disappointed.
(d) It scares them.

3. What does the narrator use to hit the curate in the head?
(a) A meat chopper.
(b) An axe.
(c) A chair.
(d) A cart wheel.

4. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?
(a) He has to go to work.
(b) He does not have a horse.
(c) He does not want to go.
(d) The trains are not running.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

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

3. About what time does the Martian attack of Surrey start?

4. What direction do the Martians head after they attack Surrey?

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?

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