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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the word "canard" mean?
(a) A worthless object.
(b) A false story.
(c) A card game.
(d) A distraction.

5. What color is the first Martian's skin?
(a) Pink.
(b) Gray.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Orange.

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

7. Who is Henderson?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A blacksmith.
(d) An astronomer.

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

9. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Forty.

10. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?
(a) Henderson.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A construction worker.
(d) Ogilvy.

11. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) Henderson.
(b) A soldier.
(c) Ogilvy.
(d) A construction worker.

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

13. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?
(a) The Martians do not seem very dangerous.
(b) The Martians are very small.
(c) The Martians move very slowly.
(d) The Martians are very weak.

14. 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 try to signal the Martians.
(c) He wants to gather his possessions.
(d) He wants to see the Martians die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

2. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

3. What is the curate doing when the narrator first meets him?

4. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:

5. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

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