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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) Scared.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Angry.
(d) Uneasy.

2. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?
(a) A dead Martian.
(b) A new Martian weapon.
(c) The heat ray.
(d) A Martian tripod.

3. How often does the narrator say new cylinders are falling just before he meets the curate?
(a) Every hour.
(b) Every day.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every other day.

4. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Boarding up their houses.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Standing in line for food.
(d) Frantically evacuating.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?

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

3. How does the author risk his safety on his tenth day in the ruined house?

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

5. What is a Deputation?

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