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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. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) His house.
(c) The train station.
(d) On the common.

2. 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 heads back to the crash site.
(c) He decides to hide.
(d) He panics.

3. What color are the gas jets?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

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

5. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
(a) Language.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crowd that gathers around the pit the morning after the cylinder crashes are from Woking and what other town?

2. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?

3. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?

4. Who is Henderson?

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

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