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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 9, Wreckage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?
(a) Uneasy.
(b) Scared.
(c) Angry.
(d) Ordinary.

2. How far is Mars from Earth?
(a) 15 million miles.
(b) 45 million miles.
(c) 20 million miles.
(d) 35 million miles.

3. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He heads back to the crash site.
(b) He decides to hide.
(c) He makes plans to leave town.
(d) He panics.

4. Where does the narrator sleep when he gets to Putney Hill?
(a) A tree.
(b) An inn.
(c) A wagon.
(d) An abadoned house.

5. How does the narrator paddle across the river when he finds a small boat?
(a) He uses his hands.
(b) He uses tools that he found.
(c) He has paddles.
(d) He uses sticks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the curate's body before the Martians take it?

2. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

3. Why does the narrator say that he recounted the story of his brother?

4. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

5. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?

(see the answer key)

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