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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far is Mars from the sun according to the narrator?
(a) 160,000 miles.
(b) 160 million miles.
(c) 140,000 miles.
(d) 140 million miles.

2. What is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?
(a) The underworld.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

3. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?
(a) He is selling newspapers.
(b) He is alarmed about the Martians.
(c) He is just trying to get attention.
(d) He is trying to cause trouble.

4. 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.

5. Where does the narrator hide when he sees The Thing?
(a) In a ditch.
(b) In a shack.
(c) Under a piece of wood.
(d) Behind a tree.

6. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?
(a) The Martians do not see him.
(b) He hides in the water.
(c) A soldier helps him get away.
(d) He fights with them.

7. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?
(a) Angry.
(b) Uneasy.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Scared.

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

9. How does the first man get into the pit?
(a) He slips on the edge.
(b) He jumps in.
(c) The crowd pushes him in.
(d) A Martian pulls him in.

10. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?
(a) The League of Astronomers.
(b) The Astronomical Exchange.
(c) Astronomers United.
(d) The National Association of Astronomers.

11. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twenty.

12. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It is hidden.
(c) It is invisible.
(d) It is made of unknown materials.

13. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?
(a) It falls and breaks its neck.
(b) It throws him off.
(c) It runs away.
(d) Someone steals it.

14. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?
(a) The Post-Dispatch.
(b) The Daily Chronicle.
(c) News of the Day.
(d) The Woking Journal.

15. What comes out of the pit after the Deputation signals the Martians?
(a) Green smoke.
(b) A missle.
(c) Fire.
(d) A Martian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

3. What disability does Henderson have?

4. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?

5. Who does not die in the heat ray?

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