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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 5, The Stillness.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
(a) Frantically evacuating.
(b) Calmly packing their things.
(c) Standing in line for food.
(d) Boarding up their houses.

3. How often does the narrator say new cylinders are falling just before he meets the curate?
(a) Every day.
(b) Every other day.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every hour.

4. In what year did the Martian invasion begin?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1894.

5. In the days immediately following the first heat ray, the only people that know about it live in what town?
(a) Chobham.
(b) Ottershaw.
(c) London.
(d) Woking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the curate and narrator first see other people?

2. What does the narrator tell his wife about the Martians in order to reassure her?

3. What does the narrator plan to do with the animal he hears outside of the house?

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

5. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?

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