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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. Why do the narrator and the curate decide to leave the riverbank?

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

3. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

4. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

5. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How far does news of the heat-ray spread after the first attack? What does this indicate?

5. What happens in the ruined house that makes the narrator hide in the basement?

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

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

8. Who does the narrator find on Putney Hill, and what do they discuss?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze how the author discusses discrimination in War of the Worlds.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Why do the humans think they are immune from a Martian attack? Be specific, and give at least five reasons.

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