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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 9, Wreckage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the soldier described who travels with the narrator?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Wrathful.
(c) Brave.
(d) Intelligent.

2. How does the narrator see outside on the first morning in the ruined house?
(a) There is a small window.
(b) He can't.
(c) He opens the door.
(d) There is an opening in the wall.

3. About how many people does the heat ray kill?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Forty.

4. What does the narrator find out about his house when he returns to it?
(a) It has been destroyed.
(b) No one has been in it since he left.
(c) Someone was staying there.
(d) It has been robbed.

5. What happens to the narrator when he reaches the other bank in the small boat?
(a) He is forced to run from Martians.
(b) He loses something valuable.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He is knocked unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's brother here about London as he travels with the two women?

3. What does the narrator find to eat after he decides to leave the ruined house?

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

5. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?

(see the answer key)

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