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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 do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?
(a) They insist on calling the military for help.
(b) They become angry at the visitors.
(c) They think that the visitors must be crazy.
(d) They become very alarmed.

2. What can survive the heat ray?
(a) Plants.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Animals.
(d) People.

3. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?
(a) Six days.
(b) Five weeks.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Three weeks.

4. Where are the Martian's ears located?
(a) On their foreheads.
(b) On the back of their heads.
(c) Next to their mouths.
(d) On their hands.

5. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Message Received From Mars.
(b) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.
(c) Evacuate Immediately.
(d) Invaders from Mars Discovered!

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator get to Woking near the end of the conflict?

3. Who is Ogilvy?

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

5. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

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