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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
2. Why is the narrator eager to get back to Woking after taking his wife to the inn?
3. How do the villagers react to the narrator's story when he runs into the village after the heat ray?
4. What two emotions does the narrator experience after the first Martian appears?
5. What disability does Henderson have?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator plan to do when he hears the dog, and what does this show about his situation?
2. What does Ogilvy observe about the object when he first sees it?
3. When the curate and the narrator are first trapped in the ruined house, how does their conflict begin to intensify?
4. As the curate and narrator fight for position at the opening in the ruined house, what do they see, and how does the narrator react?
5. Why does the newspaper editor in London refuse to print a story about the Martians?
6. Why does the narrator start walking toward London when he leaves the ruined house?
7. What does a group of people attempt to do just before the Heat-Ray? Why doesn't this work?
8. What is different about the flaming gas jets from usual shooting stars, and what do people think they are at first?
9. What does the narrator discover about the Martian machines as he watches from the ruined house?
10. What do people think is in the cylinder when they first gather on the common? Why do you think this is so?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Research all of the scientific claims the narrator makes in War of the Worlds. Analyze whether or not each of these claims could be accurate.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the Martians in detail, and explain why they are so different from humans.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using the flashback technique in general, and specifically in this novel.
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