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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. Who is Ogilvy?
(a) An astronomer.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A laborer.

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

3. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) It scares them.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are indifferent to it.
(d) They are disappointed.

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

5. Why do the humans not know what the heat ray is?
(a) It is invisible.
(b) It is hidden.
(c) It is made of unknown materials.
(d) It does not exist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who owns the property on which the first cylinder crashes?

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

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

5. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?

(see the answer key)

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