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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 the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?
(a) It throws him off.
(b) Someone steals it.
(c) It falls and breaks its neck.
(d) It runs away.

2. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Frantically evacuating.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Boarding up their houses.
(d) Standing in line for food.

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the soldier hide until meeting the narrator?

3. The narrator describes the Martians as being about the size of what animal?

4. How does the narrator paddle across the river when he finds a small boat?

5. What must first be present in order for life to begin according to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to one of the Martian tripods at the Thames River? What is the significance of this event?

2. What does the Thunder Child do to the Martian tripods? How does this change the story?

3. When the narrator returns to town after the first heat-ray, how do people react to the news he brings?

4. What kind of newspaper coverage does the cylinder receive on the second day? What might this predict?

5. What are the citizens of Weybridge doing when the narrator and artilleryman arrive?

6. What is different about the flaming gas jets from usual shooting stars, and what do people think they are at first?

7. Why does the narrator hit the curate with the meat chopper?

8. What is the state of the narrator's relationship with the curate when they stay in Halliford, and why?

9. What happens to the house in Halliford, and why is this important?

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

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