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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many gas jets are spotted within the first twenty-four hours of the story?
2. How does the Lieutenant respond to the soldier and narrator's story when meeting them?
3. How many nights in a row are the gas jets spotted before they stop?
4. Who is the first person to see the cylinder when it crashes?
5. What are the locals doing when the soldier and the narrator go to check in with the soldiers?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do people in Woking initially react to news of the Martian attack?
2. What does the narrator find when he leaves the ruined house? What does this indicate?
3. What does the "Committee of Public Safety" do to the narrator's brother, and what does this reveal about human nature?
4. After the narrator walks toward the dead Martian, what does he see, and why is this important?
5. Why does the newspaper editor in London refuse to print a story about the Martians?
6. How does the narrator get across the Thames? What does this show about his character?
7. What are the citizens of Weybridge doing when the narrator and artilleryman arrive?
8. As the curate and narrator fight for position at the opening in the ruined house, what do they see, and how does the narrator react?
9. How far does news of the heat-ray spread after the first attack? What does this indicate?
10. Why does the author take his wife to his cousin's house? What is the state of the town at that point?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the author's use of foreshadowing in War of the Worlds, and what role this technique plays in the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how War of the Worlds fits the traditional plot structure of a novel.
Essay Topic 3
Do you think the ending of War of Worlds iseffective? Why or why not?
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