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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 12, What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Someone banging on the walls.
(b) Singing.
(c) Screaming.
(d) A faint stirring.

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

3. In what area of knowledge does the narrator say the Martians are clearly superior?
(a) Biology.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Language.
(d) Philosophy.

4. Who is Marshall?
(a) A tobacconist.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A farmer.

5. What does the narrator see in the sky as he goes to town on his way back from the inn?
(a) A military missile.
(b) A third cylinder falling.
(c) A rocket.
(d) A lunar eclipse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?

2. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?

3. Why is the narrator eager to get back to Woking after taking his wife to the inn?

4. What element are the gas jets that first streamed toward Earth primarily made from?

5. Who asks the narrator to go to the landowner's estate with him?

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