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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. How does the narrator get into a yard near the ruined house?
(a) He goes around a wall.
(b) He breaks into the house in front of it.
(c) He climbs the fence.
(d) He knocks down a wall.

2. What direction do the Martians head after they attack Surrey?
(a) West.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) East.

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

4. What color is the weed that seems to be everywhere around the ruined house?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yellow.

5. Who is Marshall?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A tobacconist.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A fisherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's brother study in college?

2. Where do the Martian disks first emerge according to the soldier?

3. What does the narrator see the Martians do from the ruined house?

4. How long has it been since the soldier has eaten when he first teams up with the narrator?

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

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