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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say could kill all of the Martians, as he tries to reassure his wife?
(a) A tank.
(b) A firing squad.
(c) A shell.
(d) A bomb.

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

3. What is a Deputation?
(a) A group of delegates.
(b) A group of police officers.
(c) A group of journalists.
(d) A group of soldiers.

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

5. What do the soldier and the narrator bring with them when they decide to leave Woking?
(a) Food and whiskey.
(b) Weapons and food.
(c) Food and water.
(d) Food and the narrator's dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator hide when he sees The Thing?

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

3. What saves some people from the first heat ray?

4. Who is Ogilvy?

5. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the lesson of his story in the Epilogue?

2. What new weapon do the Martians reveal in Surrey? What does this reveal about Martian technology?

3. What does Ogilvy observe about the object when he first sees it?

4. What does a group of people attempt to do just before the Heat-Ray? Why doesn't this work?

5. What is the significance of the artilleryman's story?

6. When the curate and the narrator are first trapped in the ruined house, how does their conflict begin to intensify?

7. What does the narrator discover about the Martian machines as he watches from the ruined house?

8. Describe what the Martians look like.

9. What is the narrator's theory about why the Martians come to Earth?

10. Why might the narrator have included the story about his brother?

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