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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 8, Friday Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three.

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

3. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?
(a) Study it.
(b) Open it.
(c) Dig it out.
(d) Destroy it.

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?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Singing.
(c) Someone banging on the walls.
(d) A faint stirring.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?

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

3. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

4. Henderson sends news of the cylinder to his colleagues in what city?

5. Why is the young boy yelling in the middle of town on the Friday evening after the cylinder crashes?

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