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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 plan to do with the animal he hears outside of the house?
(a) Keep it for company.
(b) Save it as a present for his wife.
(c) Bait the Martians with it.
(d) Trap and eat it.

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

3. How does the narrator attempt to keep the curate from using up their resources?
(a) He fights him.
(b) He promises to get more soon.
(c) He pleads with him.
(d) He hides most things from the curate.

4. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three.

5. What does the soldier do who pairs up with the narrator?
(a) He is a general.
(b) He is a pilot.
(c) He is an artilleryman.
(d) He is a sailor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marshall?

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

3. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?

4. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?

5. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?

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