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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. Why does the narrator hit the curate over the head?
(a) The curate is annoying.
(b) The curate is yelling at the Martians.
(c) The curate drinks the last of their supply.
(d) The curate threatens him.

2. What does the narrator first call the cylinder?
(a) The Thing.
(b) The Monster.
(c) It.
(d) The Rocket.

3. What are the people coming back from the south of London saying?
(a) They are trapped.
(b) People are evacuating.
(c) The Martians are coming.
(d) There is nothing to worry about.

4. Where does the narrator hide when he sees The Thing?
(a) In a shack.
(b) In a ditch.
(c) Behind a tree.
(d) Under a piece of wood.

5. Why is the narrator's brother not very concerned about the narrator at first?
(a) He does not believe that the Martians exist.
(b) He gets a letter from the narrator.
(c) His wife tells him not to worry.
(d) The Martians have not been reported as a threat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not die in the heat ray?

2. How do the villagers react when the first visitors to the cylinder spread the news?

3. What happens to a few people when the crowd is escaping from the heat ray?

4. What can survive the heat ray?

5. Where does the narrator meet the man who owns the land where the cylinder crashes?

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