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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 narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?
(a) Laughter.
(b) A confused noise.
(c) A scream.
(d) A cry for help.

2. Where does the narrator sleep when he gets to Putney Hill?
(a) An inn.
(b) A wagon.
(c) An abadoned house.
(d) A tree.

3. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?
(a) Missiles.
(b) Rockets.
(c) People.
(d) Meteorites.

4. What do the soldier and the narrator bring with them when they decide to leave Woking?
(a) Food and water.
(b) Food and the narrator's dog.
(c) Weapons and food.
(d) Food and whiskey.

5. Who does not die in the heat ray?
(a) A Martian.
(b) Ogilvy.
(c) Stent.
(d) Henderson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many people does the heat ray kill?

3. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

4. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

5. Who is Marshall?

(see the answer key)

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