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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Ignoring him.
(b) Shooting at him.
(c) Attacking him.
(d) Pulling him into the pit.

4. What saves some people from the first heat ray?
(a) A tree trunk.
(b) A mound of sand.
(c) A group of soldiers.
(d) A metal shield.

5. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?
(a) A heart.
(b) A peace sign.
(c) A British flag.
(d) A white flag.

6. How far is Mars from the sun according to the narrator?
(a) 160 million miles.
(b) 160,000 miles.
(c) 140,000 miles.
(d) 140 million miles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 move very slowly.
(c) The Martians are very weak.
(d) The Martians are very small.

14. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

15. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He runs into his wife.
(b) He gets into a fight.
(c) He steals a horse.
(d) He passes out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Henderson?

2. How long has it been since the soldier has eaten when he first teams up with the narrator?

3. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

4. What does the narrator drink when he gets back to his house for the first time?

5. How far is Mars from Earth?

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