The War of the Worlds Quizzes

The War of the Worlds Quiz 1

1 What was watching humanity?
Venusians

Dinosaurs

Moonmen

Martians
2 To what does the narrator compare humans in the minds of the Martians?
Children

Creatures in a drop of water

Toys or playthings

Adorable puppies
3 What does the narrator assert about Mars?
Everything that grows there must be red because of the dust

It is very pretty

It must predate the earth

It is uninhabitable
4 What occurs on Mars to spark the invasion?
Environmental catastrophe

A meteor strike

Civil war

Nuclear war
5 Why does the narrator bring up the extinction of the Tasmanians?
To illustrate how the Martians see humanity

To bring awareness regarding this tragedy

To establish that he is white

For unknown reasons
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?
A meteor shower

A civil war on Mars

Transports being fired from the planet's surface

Nuclear strikes ordered by the US government
8 Who is Ogilvy?
An astronomer

The narrator's brother

A business owner

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

Lends him money

Gives him passage on a ship to Mars

Travels with him
10 What does Ogilvy think is causing these explosions on the surface of Mars?
Nuclear bombs

Meteorites

A Martian civil war

An alien invasion
11 What does Ogilvy think of the idea that it is aliens causing these explosions?
He wholeheartedly believes it

He has not heard of this theory

He dismisses this idea

He considers it briefly
12 In the first chapter, what is the narrator learning how to do?
Ride a bike

Identify different types of aliens

Bake a pie

Fold an origami crane
13 What does Ogilbvy find when he looks for the meteor?
A gold coin

A wandering Martian

A rabbit

A cylinder
14 What does Henderson do after Ogilvy shows him the cylinder?
Writes a news article about it

Says they need to alert the government

Throws a rock at it

Runs away screaming
15 What does the narrator do when he reads Henderson's article?
Alerts the national guard

Heads to the cylinder

Flees to Scotland

Sends his children to a bunker for safety
16 What are the young boys doing to the cylinder?
Trying to open it

Throwing rocks at it

Drawing a rude image on it

Helping the Martians to their feet
17 What does the narrator notice about the cylinder?
It is made from a metal not found on earth

It bears the name of an Earth company

It has a Pizza Hut logo on its side

It has legs
18 What happened to the shop assistant who came to see the cylinder?
He was eaten by the cylinder

He left immediately

He was able to communicate with the Martians

He fell in
19 What do the Martians look like?
They are about the size of a bear and covered with tentacles

They look just like people

They are little green men

The have long limbs and move like spiders.
20 What do the Martians do to the delegation carrying the white flag?
Eat them

Vaporize them

Shake hands with them

Give them a gift
21 What does the narrator call the Martians' main weapon?
The blaster

The stun gun

The lightsaber

The heat ray
22 What is one theory about how the heat ray works?
It uses a mirror-like object to concentrate the heat

It concentrates fear and weaponizes it

It works like a gun

It uses a flint and steel to create fire
23 Where does the narrator go after the attack on the commons?
To his favorite cafe

Home to his wife

To Scotland

To the police barracks
24 What does the narrator compare himself to at the end of Chapter 7?
A dodo preparing to fight the European colonizers

A lion ready to defend his family

A bird flying away to freedom

An anaconda dropping on unsuspecting intruders
25 How do people respond after the first peace expedition to the Martians is destroyed?
People panic and begin raiding local stores

The town is immediately put under martial law

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

Business carries on as usual

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

Asked by Kelsi E #1292875

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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Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/18/2020 12:14 PM

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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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