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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Five.

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

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

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

5. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?
(a) One hundred
(b) One thousand.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Four hundred.

6. How do most people react to the invasion on the first Friday after the cylinder lands?
(a) They are demanding action from the military.
(b) They have not taken much notice of it.
(c) They are very curious about what is happening.
(d) They are keeping a close eye on the pit in shifts.

7. Who is Ogilvy?
(a) A reporter.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A laborer.
(d) An astronomer.

8. Why is the narrator eager to get back to Woking after taking his wife to the inn?
(a) He is afraid something will happen to his house.
(b) He wants to see the Martians die.
(c) He wants to gather his possessions.
(d) He wants to try to signal the Martians.

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

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

11. Why does Ogilvy think it is impossible for the Martians to become established on Earth?
(a) The gravity is too strong.
(b) There is not enough nitrogen in the air.
(c) There is no food for them on Earth.
(d) The Martians cannot see very well.

12. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?
(a) He says that he will protect them.
(b) He accuses them of being insane.
(c) He does not believe them.
(d) He says that he saw the same things they did.

13. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) London.
(b) Ottershaw.
(c) Chobham.
(d) Woking.

14. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) A reporter.
(b) His wife.
(c) A policeman.
(d) The milkman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the soldier hide until meeting the narrator?

3. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?

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

5. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?

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