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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) A faint stirring.
(c) Singing.
(d) Screaming.

2. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?
(a) They are shot.
(b) They are captured by Martians.
(c) They are arrested.
(d) They are crushed.

3. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?
(a) Fifty.
(b) One hundred
(c) One thousand.
(d) Four hundred.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people surround the pit the morning after the cylinder lands?

2. Where does the narrator decide to take his wife when his chimney is cracked?

3. Where does the Lieutenant tell the narrator and the soldier to go?

4. How large in diameter is the first cylinder?

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

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