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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 happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are crushed.
(b) They are shot.
(c) They are captured by Martians.
(d) They are arrested.

2. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Beeping.
(b) Hammering.
(c) Drilling.
(d) Crying.

3. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?
(a) Meteorites.
(b) Missiles.
(c) Rockets.
(d) People.

4. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?
(a) Someone steals it.
(b) It falls and breaks its neck.
(c) It runs away.
(d) It throws him off.

5. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?
(a) About one-quarter.
(b) About three-quarters.
(c) About half.
(d) About twice as much.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator hide after he hits the curate?

2. What does the word "canard" mean?

3. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

4. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

5. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?

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