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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the curate spend most days doing just after the house is ruined?

2. What does the Martian tentacle reach into the ruined house and take?

3. What does the narrator begin to believe right after he leaves the ruined house?

4. How much time does the narrator spend in the ruined house in total?

5. What does the Committee of Public Safety do when they meet the narrator's brother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What purposes does the narrator's brother serve as a character?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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