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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 4, The Cylinder Opens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Neon.
(d) Helium.

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

3. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?
(a) Lord William.
(b) Lord Vasser.
(c) Lord Hilton.
(d) Lord Harrington.

4. What do the first visitors to the cylinder think is inside it at first?
(a) A strange creature.
(b) A Martian invader.
(c) An animal.
(d) A man.

5. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He makes plans to leave town.
(b) He decides to hide.
(c) He heads back to the crash site.
(d) He panics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Astronomer Royal?

3. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

4. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?

5. What is the London newspaper's headline the day after the first cylinder crashes?

(see the answer key)

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