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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 happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are captured by Martians.
(b) They are shot.
(c) They are crushed.
(d) They are arrested.

2. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?
(a) They push him.
(b) They laugh at him.
(c) They pry him for details.
(d) They ignore him.

3. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?
(a) Clovelly.
(b) Chertsey.
(c) Bibury.
(d) Farnham.

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

5. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Yelling at it.
(b) Daring each other to touch it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Trying to open it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?

3. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

4. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?

5. How is the soldier separated from his unit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the man who rents out the horse and cart to the narrator? What message is this event supposed to send to the reader?

2. What does the narrator find when he leaves the ruined house? What does this indicate?

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

4. How does the narrator get across the Thames? What does this show about his character?

5. Why does the narrator start walking toward London when he leaves the ruined house?

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

7. How does the narrator attempt to reassure himself and his wife when he returns home after the first heat-ray?

8. Why does the newspaper editor in London refuse to print a story about the Martians?

9. What happens in the ruined house that makes the narrator hide in the basement?

10. How do people react when Ogilvy runs to the village for help, and why?

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