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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?
(a) Wincester.
(b) London.
(c) Woking.
(d) Leatherhead.

2. What is the man selling near the pit shortly after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Sweets.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Souvenirs.
(d) Drawings.

3. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Scream.
(b) Tell the narrator to leave.
(c) Shoot into the pit.
(d) Argue.

4. What is the curate doing when the narrator first meets him?
(a) Panicking.
(b) Trying to find food.
(c) Making a fire.
(d) Looking for money in the narrator's pockets.

5. How far is Mars from Earth?
(a) 20 million miles.
(b) 45 million miles.
(c) 15 million miles.
(d) 35 million miles.

6. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?
(a) A new Martian weapon.
(b) The heat ray.
(c) A dead Martian.
(d) A Martian tripod.

7. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are crushed.
(c) They are captured by Martians.
(d) They are arrested.

8. What two emotions does the narrator experience after the first Martian appears?
(a) Fear and anger.
(b) Excitement and fear.
(c) Excitement and anger.
(d) Fear and curiosity.

9. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Frantically evacuating.
(b) Standing in line for food.
(c) Calmly packing their things.
(d) Boarding up their houses.

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

11. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) The Monster.
(b) The Rocket.
(c) It.
(d) The Thing.

12. What is a curate?
(a) A clergyman.
(b) A judge.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?

2. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?

3. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?

4. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?

5. Who is Marshall?

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