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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What disability does Henderson have?
(a) He cannot move one of his arms.
(b) He has a speech impediment.
(c) He cannot walk.
(d) He is deaf in one ear.

4. 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) A dead Martian.
(c) A Martian tripod.
(d) The heat ray.

5. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?
(a) Five yards.
(b) Twenty yards.
(c) Ten yards.
(d) Thirty yards.

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

7. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

8. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?
(a) Bristol.
(b) London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Lincoln.

9. What does the narrator see in the sky as he goes to town on his way back from the inn?
(a) A military missile.
(b) A lunar eclipse.
(c) A rocket.
(d) A third cylinder falling.

10. What is the name of the Astronomer Royal?
(a) Silas.
(b) Stent.
(c) Stevens.
(d) Smith.

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

12. What does the narrator hear after the shopman goes into the pit?
(a) Laughter.
(b) A cry for help.
(c) A confused noise.
(d) A scream.

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

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

15. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord Hilton.
(b) Lord Vasser.
(c) Lord William.
(d) Lord Harrington.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?

2. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

3. How is the soldier separated from his unit?

4. What color are the gas jets?

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

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