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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. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?
(a) An animal.
(b) A man.
(c) A Martian invader.
(d) A strange creature.

2. What is a "sapper?"
(a) A skilled front-line soldier.
(b) A member of the Navy.
(c) A bar owner.
(d) A man who makes syrup.

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

4. What kills the Martians?
(a) Water.
(b) Birds.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) A bomb.

5. From the ruined house, the narrator sees that the Martian "tripods" actually have how many legs?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

2. What does the Martian cry sound like?

3. What does the narrator find to eat after he decides to leave the ruined house?

4. What does the Committee of Public Safety do when they meet the narrator's brother?

5. Where does the narrator hear a Martian crying out?

(see the answer key)

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