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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. Why do the narrator and soldier decide to take a long route when leaving Woking?
(a) The long route will be safer.
(b) The direct road is crowded with people.
(c) There may be food on the long route.
(d) The direct road has been blocked.

2. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Evacuate Immediately.
(b) Message Received From Mars.
(c) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(d) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.

3. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Deputation use as a signal to the Martians?

2. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?

3. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?

4. Who is Marshall?

5. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people in Woking initially react to news of the Martian attack?

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

3. How does the Martian invasion begin and how do people generally react?

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

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

6. Describe the object that the narrator refers to as "The Thing."

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

8. How does the narrator describe the Martian's internal anatomy?

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

10. What weapon do the Martians use when the first cylinder opens, and how does this change the story?

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