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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. Where does the Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?
(a) London.
(b) Weybridge.
(c) Surrey.
(d) Shepperton.

2. What does the new weapon do that the Martians reveal at Surrey?
(a) It emits toxic smoke.
(b) It works as a mounted gun on the tripods.
(c) It knocks down enemy vehicles.
(d) It shoots fire.

3. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights the Martians?
(a) A soldier helps him get away.
(b) The Martians do not see him.
(c) He hides in the water.
(d) He fights with them.

4. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) Ottershaw.
(b) London.
(c) Woking.
(d) Chobham.

5. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Government Says Not to be Alarmed.
(b) Message Received From Mars.
(c) Invaders from Mars Discovered!
(d) Evacuate Immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "sapper?"

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

3. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

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

5. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:

(see the answer key)

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