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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. How far is Mars from Earth?
(a) 20 million miles.
(b) 45 million miles.
(c) 15 million miles.
(d) 35 million miles.

2. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Six.

3. What is the curate doing when the narrator first meets him?
(a) Panicking.
(b) Trying to find food.
(c) Looking for money in the narrator's pockets.
(d) Making a fire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the gas jets in the sky originally assumed to be?

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator see in the sky as he goes to town on his way back from the inn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator's brother respond when he hears rumors that food supplies may soon arrive? What does this reveal about him?

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

3. When the narrator returns to the common on the second day, who is in the pit? What are they doing and why?

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

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

6. What does the narrator's brother do for the women in the carriage? What does this reveal about his character?

7. What do people think is in the cylinder when they first gather on the common? Why do you think this is so?

8. Right after the Martians first use the heat-ray, what do people know about how the weapon works?

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

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

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