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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 are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

2. What is a curate?

3. How does the first man get into the pit?

4. Who is Ogilvy?

5. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Martians look like.

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

3. What is the narrator's theory about why the Martians come to Earth?

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

5. Why are the milkman and the train reassuring to the narrator after the first heat-ray?

6. How do those who first see the cylinder feel about it in general, and why do they feel this way?

7. What does the black tube weapon reveal about the Martian's intentions?

8. What does the narrator discover about the Martian machines as he watches from the ruined house?

9. Why do scientists think that Mars cannot support life?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think the author chooses not to give the narrator a name? What effect does this have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think the ending of War of Worlds iseffective? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the character of the artilleryman and what you think he is meant to represent.

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