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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 10, In the Storm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people hear coming from the pit a few nights after the cylinder crashes?
(a) Drilling.
(b) Crying.
(c) Hammering.
(d) Beeping.

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

3. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Throwing rocks at it.
(b) Daring each other to touch it.
(c) Yelling at it.
(d) Trying to open it.

4. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?
(a) Helium.
(b) Neon.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Oxygen.

5. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?

2. What comes out of the pit after the Deputation signals the Martians?

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

4. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?

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

(see the answer key)

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