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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 1, Under Food.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's brother decide to do when he hears that food may be available if he waits?
(a) Go find food.
(b) Keep going.
(c) Demand food from other evacuees.
(d) Wait.

2. How is the soldier separated from his unit?
(a) He was discharged.
(b) His horse fell.
(c) They abadoned him.
(d) He ran away.

3. What happens to the narrator as he runs home after the heat ray?
(a) He runs into his wife.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He steals a horse.
(d) He gets into a fight.

4. Who does the narrator say he finds reassuring the morning before he is forced to flee?
(a) A reporter.
(b) The milkman.
(c) A policeman.
(d) His wife.

5. How do the people gathering around the cylinder initially react to it?
(a) They are indifferent to it.
(b) It scares them.
(c) They are disappointed.
(d) They are angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Committee of Public Safety do when they meet the narrator's brother?

2. What color is the first Martian's skin?

3. What does the narrator refer to as The Thing when he comes back to town after taking his wife away?

4. About how many soldiers does the military send in response to the first cylinder crash?

5. What happens to the narrator's horse when he goes back to Woking?

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