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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the curate spend most days doing just after the house is ruined?
(a) Praying.
(b) Looking for food.
(c) Crying.
(d) Planning his escape.

2. Who takes the narrator in after he walks toward the Martian?
(a) A shopkeeper.
(b) A convent.
(c) A family.
(d) A soldier.

3. What are the men trying to do when they attack the two women in the cart?
(a) Take their valuables.
(b) Kill the women.
(c) Kidnap the women.
(d) Take the cart.

4. How long do the curate and the narrator hide in the house before the narrator hits the curate?
(a) Six days.
(b) Five weeks.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Three weeks.

5. What does the narrator find to eat after he decides to leave the ruined house?
(a) Carrots.
(b) A rodent.
(c) Bread.
(d) Potatoes.

6. What does the narrator use to hit the curate in the head?
(a) A chair.
(b) A cart wheel.
(c) An axe.
(d) A meat chopper.

7. About how many dead Martians does the narrator see after he hears the Martian cry?
(a) Fifty.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Twenty.
(d) One hundred.

8. How does the narrator get to Woking near the end of the conflict?
(a) A train.
(b) A horse.
(c) A wagon.
(d) He walks.

9. What do the Martians eat?
(a) Small animals.
(b) Rocks and other minerals.
(c) Blood.
(d) Insects.

10. What does the Martian tentacle reach into the ruined house and take?
(a) A chair leg.
(b) A lump of coal.
(c) A doorknob.
(d) A piece of glass.

11. How many Martians initially attack nearby the night after the narrator's brother is introduced?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

13. Where does the narrator sleep when he gets to Putney Hill?
(a) An inn.
(b) An abadoned house.
(c) A wagon.
(d) A tree.

14. What does the Martian cry sound like?
(a) "Yip, yip."
(b) "Ack, ack."
(c) "Ulla, ulla."
(d) "Baru, baru."

15. What does the narrator see the Martians do from the ruined house?
(a) Fight with each other.
(b) Kill a little boy.
(c) Build another weapon.
(d) Force humans to fight with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time does the narrator spend in the ruined house in total?

2. Who ultimately kills the men who are attacking the two women?

3. Where does the narrator find food in the ruined house after the curate dies?

4. Why does the narrator's brother fail to travel to the narrator's home?

5. Why does the narrator say that he recounted the story of his brother?

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