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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say he feels on his way home from the heat ray incident?
(a) Angry.
(b) Scared.
(c) Uneasy.
(d) Ordinary.

2. How long has it been since the soldier has eaten when he first teams up with the narrator?
(a) Ten hours.
(b) One day.
(c) One week.
(d) Two days.

3. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

4. What are the little boys doing to the cylinder the morning after it crashes?
(a) Yelling at it.
(b) Trying to open it.
(c) Throwing rocks at it.
(d) Daring each other to touch it.

5. How many policemen are sent to the common after the heat ray?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many houses around the pit catch fire on Friday night?

2. How does the narrator react when he reads an article about the cylinder at the end of Chapter 2?

3. What do the soldier and the narrator bring with them when they decide to leave Woking?

4. What does the word "canard" mean?

5. What color are the gas jets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the citizens of Weybridge doing when the narrator and artilleryman arrive?

2. How does the narrator describe the Martian's internal anatomy?

3. What does the narrator's brother do for the women in the carriage? What does this reveal about his character?

4. Describe the object that the narrator refers to as "The Thing."

5. What does a group of people attempt to do just before the Heat-Ray? Why doesn't this work?

6. When the narrator first meets the artilleryman, what does the soldier say happened to his unit?

7. What does the Thunder Child do to the Martian tripods? How does this change the story?

8. How do those who first see the cylinder feel about it in general, and why do they feel this way?

9. What happens to the house in Halliford, and why is this important?

10. How do people feel about the Martians when they first see them? When and why does this change?

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