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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. What is the name of the Astronomer Royal?
(a) Smith.
(b) Stent.
(c) Stevens.
(d) Silas.

2. What saves some people from the first heat ray?
(a) A mound of sand.
(b) A metal shield.
(c) A group of soldiers.
(d) A tree trunk.

3. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?
(a) Five yards.
(b) Twenty yards.
(c) Thirty yards.
(d) Ten yards.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

2. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?

3. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?

4. What does the narrator say could kill all of the Martians, as he tries to reassure his wife?

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

(see the answer key)

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