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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 many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twenty.

2. Where do the curate and narrator first see other people?
(a) Leatherhead.
(b) Kew.
(c) Twickenham.
(d) Halliford.

3. What does the narrator start calling the tripods when he travels with the curate?
(a) Martian fighting machines.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Octopi.
(d) Death machines.

4. 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 accuses them of being insane.
(c) He says that he saw the same things they did.
(d) He does not believe them.

5. Who is Henderson?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A blacksmith.
(c) An astronomer.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the first man get into the pit?

3. What does the narrator plan to do with the animal he hears outside of the house?

4. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?

5. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?

(see the answer key)

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