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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 7, How I Reached Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator react when the first Martian falls out of the cylinder?
(a) He stays where he is.
(b) He yells for help.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He tries to fight it.

2. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Forty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Fifty.

3. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He steals a horse.
(b) He gets into a fight.
(c) He passes out.
(d) He runs into his wife.

4. 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) London.
(d) Ottershaw.

5. What is Mars the god of in Roman mythology?
(a) The underworld.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men trying to do to the cylinder the day after it crashes?

2. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

3. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?

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

5. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?

(see the answer key)

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