The War of the Worlds Quizzes

The War of the Worlds Quiz 1

1 What was watching humanity?
Moonmen

Martians

Venusians

Dinosaurs
2 To what does the narrator compare humans in the minds of the Martians?
Toys or playthings

Creatures in a drop of water

Adorable puppies

Children
3 What does the narrator assert about Mars?
It must predate the earth

It is uninhabitable

Everything that grows there must be red because of the dust

It is very pretty
4 What occurs on Mars to spark the invasion?
Nuclear war

A meteor strike

Environmental catastrophe

Civil war
5 Why does the narrator bring up the extinction of the Tasmanians?
To establish that he is white

To bring awareness regarding this tragedy

For unknown reasons

To illustrate how the Martians see humanity
6 What did astronomers notice about Mars in the years before the invasion?
The planet's color changing

Satellites orbiting the planet

Strange lights on the surface of the planet

A tilt in the planet's axis
7 What did these lights represent?
Transports being fired from the planet's surface

A civil war on Mars

Nuclear strikes ordered by the US government

A meteor shower
8 Who is Ogilvy?
An astronomer

A rabbit

The narrator's brother

A business owner
9 What does Ogilvy do for the narrator?
Uses his telescope to show him the explosions of gas on the surface of the planet

Travels with him

Gives him passage on a ship to Mars

Lends him money
10 What does Ogilvy think is causing these explosions on the surface of Mars?
An alien invasion

Meteorites

A Martian civil war

Nuclear bombs
11 What does Ogilvy think of the idea that it is aliens causing these explosions?
He has not heard of this theory

He dismisses this idea

He wholeheartedly believes it

He considers it briefly
12 In the first chapter, what is the narrator learning how to do?
Identify different types of aliens

Fold an origami crane

Ride a bike

Bake a pie
13 What does Ogilbvy find when he looks for the meteor?
A gold coin

A wandering Martian

A cylinder

A rabbit
14 What does Henderson do after Ogilvy shows him the cylinder?
Throws a rock at it

Says they need to alert the government

Runs away screaming

Writes a news article about it
15 What does the narrator do when he reads Henderson's article?
Sends his children to a bunker for safety

Alerts the national guard

Flees to Scotland

Heads to the cylinder
16 What are the young boys doing to the cylinder?
Throwing rocks at it

Helping the Martians to their feet

Drawing a rude image on it

Trying to open it
17 What does the narrator notice about the cylinder?
It bears the name of an Earth company

It is made from a metal not found on earth

It has legs

It has a Pizza Hut logo on its side
18 What happened to the shop assistant who came to see the cylinder?
He was able to communicate with the Martians

He was eaten by the cylinder

He fell in

He left immediately
19 What do the Martians look like?
The have long limbs and move like spiders.

They are about the size of a bear and covered with tentacles

They look just like people

They are little green men
20 What do the Martians do to the delegation carrying the white flag?
Vaporize them

Eat them

Give them a gift

Shake hands with them
21 What does the narrator call the Martians' main weapon?
The blaster

The heat ray

The lightsaber

The stun gun
22 What is one theory about how the heat ray works?
It concentrates fear and weaponizes it

It works like a gun

It uses a flint and steel to create fire

It uses a mirror-like object to concentrate the heat
23 Where does the narrator go after the attack on the commons?
To Scotland

Home to his wife

To his favorite cafe

To the police barracks
24 What does the narrator compare himself to at the end of Chapter 7?
A lion ready to defend his family

A bird flying away to freedom

An anaconda dropping on unsuspecting intruders

A dodo preparing to fight the European colonizers
25 How do people respond after the first peace expedition to the Martians is destroyed?
Business carries on as usual

A group of local men carry axes into the pit to bludgeon the Martians

The town is immediately put under martial law

People panic and begin raiding local stores

Which word from paragraph 4 provides context that supports the meaning of the word shivered?

You want to connect one of your choices with the word shivered?

I might consider: B - a line of flame high in the atmosphere

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Answered by Aslan on 3/2/2023 10:23 PM

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What two factors help the Martians overcome the gravitational differences between Mars & Earth?

From the text:

The atmosphere of the earth, we now know, contains far more oxygen or far less argon (whichever way one likes to put it) than does Mars’. The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much...

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Is the narrator more afraid of the visitors, or is he intrigued by them?

Sorry, I can't write your essay for you. The Narrator manages to survive past the end of the invasion mostly unharmed. Despite the relative stoicism he displays throughout the novel, prolonged exposure to the atrocities that the alien invaders...

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Answered by Aslan on 5/6/2020 3:09 AM

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