The War Of The Worlds Quiz 18 (14 MCQs)

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1. Which sentence below is a simile?

Correct Answer: A) " crawling out in a thing like a dish cover.".

2. What did the martians look like?

Correct Answer: C) Heads with tentacles.

3. In paragraph 10, the word irresolute means-

Correct Answer: B) Uncertain.

4. Fill in the blank:If you're a wildly popular celebrity, you probably don't go anywhere without a ..... bodyguard.

Correct Answer: B) Formidable.

5. What is a definition of MORTAL?

Correct Answer: B) A living human, subject to death.

6. This word means a 3D circle object.

Correct Answer: B) Cylinder.

7. What was the Thing in the field that the protagonist saw?

Correct Answer: A) A cylinder from Mars.

8. What is the name of the well known astronomer at Ottershaw?

Correct Answer: C) Ogilvy.

9. What was the protagonist doing while watching the monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance?

Correct Answer: C) Lying in the rain and darkness.

10. Fill in the blank the best vocabulary word:The media is quick to ..... a story, so don't believe what you read

Correct Answer: A) Sensationalize.

11. Synonym for rigid, hard, or firm.

Correct Answer: A) Stiff.

12. What event caused mass panic and hysteria in the United States?

Correct Answer: A) A realistic radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds.

13. Something unauthentic, but is spread to be true

Correct Answer: B) Apocryphal.

14. Sally felt very ..... when her best friend over away.

Correct Answer: C) Lonely.