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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 15, What Had Happened in Surrey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) A policeman.
(b) His wife.
(c) A reporter.
(d) The milkman.

2. What do the soldiers do when the narrator tells them about the heat ray?
(a) Scream.
(b) Tell the narrator to leave.
(c) Shoot into the pit.
(d) Argue.

3. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Frantically evacuating.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Standing in line for food.
(d) Boarding up their houses.

4. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Attacking him.
(b) Ignoring him.
(c) Shooting at him.
(d) Pulling him into the pit.

5. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?
(a) Bibury.
(b) Chertsey.
(c) Farnham.
(d) Clovelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Martian repair his tripod during the Martian attack of Surrey?

2. What is the name of the professional organization for astronomers?

3. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?

4. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?

5. About what time does the Martian attack of Surrey start?

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