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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) They are disappointed.
(c) It scares them.
(d) They are angry.

6. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Study it.
(b) Open it.
(c) Dig it out.
(d) Destroy it.

7. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1893.

8. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He decides to hide.
(b) He heads back to the crash site.
(c) He makes plans to leave town.
(d) He panics.

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

10. What happens to the narrator when he reaches the other bank in the small boat?
(a) He loses something valuable.
(b) He is knocked unconscious.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He is forced to run from Martians.

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

12. What does the narrator drink when he gets back to his house for the first time?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Water.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Bourbon.

13. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Drilling.
(b) Hammering.
(c) Crying.
(d) Beeping.

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

15. 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 says that he saw the same things they did.
(d) He does not believe them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Astronomer Royal?

2. How do most people react to the invasion on the first Friday after the cylinder lands?

3. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?

4. What is a "sapper?"

5. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?

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