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

2. How does the first man get into the pit?
(a) He jumps in.
(b) The crowd pushes him in.
(c) A Martian pulls him in.
(d) He slips on the edge.

3. How much light does Mars receive from the Sun, compared to the light Earth receives?
(a) About one-quarter.
(b) About half.
(c) About twice as much.
(d) About three-quarters.

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

5. A soldier tells the narrator that when a man waved a flag on a long pole at the Martians, the Martians responded by:
(a) Pulling him into the pit.
(b) Shooting at him.
(c) Attacking him.
(d) Ignoring him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not die in the heat ray?

2. How does the narrator escape when the army first fights 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. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?

5. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?

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