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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 does the word "canard" mean?
(a) A false story.
(b) A distraction.
(c) A worthless object.
(d) A card game.

2. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?
(a) London.
(b) Leatherhead.
(c) Westminster.
(d) Cambridge.

3. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?
(a) Moisture.
(b) Vegetation.
(c) Temperature cooling.
(d) Nitrogen.

4. 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) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(d) Evacuate Immediately.

5. What does the narrator's brother think happens to the narrator after news reports of the Martians reach town?
(a) He thinks that the narrator is dead.
(b) He thinks that the narrator must be hiding.
(c) He thinks that the narrator escaped.
(d) He thinks that the narrator is coming for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?

2. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?

3. Where does the narrator sleep when he gets to Putney Hill?

4. What does the Martian cry sound like?

5. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?

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