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

2. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1894.

3. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?
(a) About twice as much.
(b) About one-quarter.
(c) About half.
(d) About three-quarters.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people near the cylinder hear coming from inside of it at the end of the first day after the cylinder crashes?

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?

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

4. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?

5. How does the first man get into the pit?

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