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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 6, The Work of Fifteen Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?
(a) Henderson.
(b) Ogilvy.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A construction worker.

3. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?
(a) Four hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One thousand.
(d) One hundred

4. What is the name of the narrator's local newspaper?
(a) The Post-Dispatch.
(b) News of the Day.
(c) The Woking Journal.
(d) The Daily Chronicle.

5. What does the narrator drink when he gets back to his house for the first time?
(a) Bourbon.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

3. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

4. Where is the first house in which the curate and narrator take refuge?

5. Over what town is the gas jet first spotted?

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