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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. Where do the narrator and curate sleep in the ruined house?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the basement.
(c) In the attic.
(d) In a scullery.

2. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Shoot into the pit.
(b) Scream.
(c) Tell the narrator to leave.
(d) Argue.

3. As he watches from the ruined house, the narrator sees a Martian pick up a person from where?
(a) A house.
(b) A cage.
(c) A cart.
(d) A bush.

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

5. What does the narrator find out about his house when he returns to it?
(a) It has been destroyed.
(b) No one has been in it since he left.
(c) Someone was staying there.
(d) It has been robbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "sapper?"

2. Why does Ogilvy think it is impossible for the Martians to become established on Earth?

3. What does the Martian cry sound like?

4. How long has it been since the soldier has eaten when he first teams up with the narrator?

5. What do the Martians bring with them in the cylinders?

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