This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The War Of The Worlds – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The War Of The Worlds Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Scene 1, the playwright does not reveal why fires are burning or what fight Henry plans to join. The most likely reason the playwright does not reveal this information is to A) Help the reader understand why Clara is upset. B) Make the reader curious about what's going on. C) Hint that Henry will not make it to Leatherhead. D) Trick the reader into thinking that the aliens are friendly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make the reader curious about what's going on. 2. Fill in the blank:The earthquake was the greatest ..... in the country's history. A) Transience. B) Calamity. C) Gravity. D) Complacence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calamity. 3. How many people were estimated to have heard the radio play? A) 6 million. B) 73 years ago. C) The whole population of the United States. D) 1.2 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6 million. 4. During which astronomical event do the observatories spot a flash of light emanating from Mars? A) Meteor shower. B) Solar eclipse. C) Comet sighting. D) Astronomical opposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astronomical opposition. 5. The radio program was making reports continuously, they didn't add music. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. What was the main body of the Thing made of? A) Metal. B) Plastic. C) Wood. D) Glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metal. 7. George went to his cousin's house. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. We drove all day and stopped at an ..... to rest. A) Inn. B) None. C) Lonely. D) Tunnel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inn. 9. A synonym for repugnance is A) Love. B) Joy. C) Apology. D) Disgust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disgust. 10. Why does the narrator decide to leave his wife in Leatherhead? A) To protect her from the Martians. B) Because she is ill. C) To go back and observe the Martians. D) She decides to stay; he doesn't make the decision for her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To protect her from the Martians. 11. How does the narrator get to Woking near the end of the conflict? A) A train. B) He walks. C) A wagon. D) A horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A train. 12. The soldier's plan was to A) Dig a tunnel that would lead him out to sea. B) Dig a tunnel to London. C) Dig a tunnel and live under the ground. D) Build better machines than the Martians had. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dig a tunnel and live under the ground. 13. What is a likely synonym for "salient?" A) Irrelevant. B) Meaningful. C) Outlandish. D) Misleading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meaningful. 14. This word means a space rock coming from another planet A) Sizzling. B) Cylinder. C) Meteorite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meteorite. 15. True / False The aliens were orange with 6 eyes. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 16. Fill in the blank:She had a ..... attitude toward unemployment, which made her family worry about her future. A) Complacent. B) Calamitous. C) Transient. D) Disillusioned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complacent. 17. How does the narrator escape from the slaughter at Sheperton and Weybridge when the water boils? A) By a boat he finds. B) Train. C) Dog cart. D) Bicycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By a boat he finds. 18. The author and his companion A) Got along very well with each other. B) Did not get along at all. C) Were careless people. D) Were very much alike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Did not get along at all. 19. The main character of the book is A) Ms. Sheaffer. B) Henderson. C) Ogilvy. D) The narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator. 20. Which disease significantly impacted the Aztec population during the siege? A) The bubonic plague. B) Cholera. C) Smallpox. D) Influenza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smallpox. 21. On my ..... try, the ball went in the basket. A) Blood. B) Stiff. C) Dust. D) Fifth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fifth. 22. Peeking through a hole in the house, the author and the coward saw a new machine that looked like a A) Turtle. B) Rabbit. C) Raccoon. D) Spider. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spider. 23. What time of day does the story take place? A) Afternoon. B) Dawn. C) Night. D) Morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morning. 24. The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and animals. A) Discover. B) Dust. C) Blood. D) Dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood. 25. When the black smoke had disappeared, the author left the house ..... A) To find his wife. B) To find his brother. C) To buy some food. D) To get to the coast and get out of the country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To find his wife. 26. What was the narrator's wife called? A) Anna. B) Alice. C) Amanda. D) Anita. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alice. 27. What is the date of the first observances of eruptions on Mars? A) August 12, 1894. B) September 11, 1984. C) August 1, 2004. D) July 4, 1776. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) August 12, 1894. 28. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the text? A) Humans cannot take their eyes off the Martians because they are so beautiful. B) The narrator is in awe of the Martians' arrival and unsure if he should be afraid. C) The Martians have given no indication that they have any mental capacity. D) The narrator would like to leave Earth with the Martians once they depart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The narrator is in awe of the Martians' arrival and unsure if he should be afraid. 29. This story is an example of what is happening with the Internet nowadays. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Why did the aliens die? A) A disease killed them. B) Humans fought against them. C) Humans created a super machine. D) They were too old. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A disease killed them. 31. How do the humans initially react to the cylinder's landing? A) With immediate hostility and violence. B) With curiosity and a welcoming committee. C) By evacuating the area around the landing site. D) By attempting to communicate using signals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With curiosity and a welcoming committee. 32. People couldn't trust the radio because it was a new medium. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 33. What is Radio Drama? A) A system that is seen. B) Motion picture. C) An acoustic performance. D) Written for the annual spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An acoustic performance. 34. Fill in the blank:His father ..... his son for misbehaving, but the boy refused to apologize after. A) Incapacitated. B) Consecrated. C) Licked. D) Ordained. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Licked. 35. The narrator's second traveling companion after the war started was ..... A) The curate. B) The artillery man. C) His wife. D) A secret Martian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The curate. 36. The author was very worried about ..... A) His cowardly friend. B) His neighbors. C) His brother. D) His wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His wife. 37. The POINT OF VIEW of the movie is: A) 2nd person. B) 3rd person limited. C) 1st person. D) 3rd person omnipotent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3rd person limited. 38. Fill in the blank:The job of cheerleaders at a football game is to get the crowd ..... up and excited for their team. A) Complacent. B) Scarce. C) Riled. D) Disillusioned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Riled. 39. ' ..... there came a muffled detonation from the common.' Find a synonym for muffled. A) Strange. B) Deafening. C) Unclear. D) Loud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unclear. 40. What is the name of the song that the narrator invents? A) The Invincible Man. B) The Last Man Alive. C) The Last One Standing. D) The One Survivor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Last Man Alive. 41. People were so afraid because they had fear of a war. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. 8 The author includes paragraph 20 to- A) Analyze the problem with the story getting out. B) Address an inaccuracy in the newspaper article. C) Suggest that the men inside the cylinder were dead. D) Explain how quickly the story spread and changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Explain how quickly the story spread and changed. 43. What event marks the beginning of the Martian invasion in "The War of the Worlds" ? A) A meteor shower visible across Europe. B) The sudden appearance of a strange object on Mars. C) The landing of a cylinder from Mars in England. D) A worldwide earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The landing of a cylinder from Mars in England. 44. Which line from the text best supports your answer to question 4? A) Joe:This is the end of us. B) Man:The army's got things under control. C) Henry:Death! Death is coming!. D) N4:Henry turns back to Leatherhead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man:The army's got things under control. 45. The author met a soldier who told him that. A) The Martians had won the war. B) The Martians had gone back to Mars. C) All the Martians had died. D) He was leaving the city in his flying machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Martians had won the war. 46. What do the Martians feed on? A) Plants. B) Sunlight. C) Animals. D) Human blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human blood. 47. When the narrator went again to view the 'Thing' what does he find workers doing? A) The workers were praying around the cylinder. B) The workers were taking selfies with the cylinder. C) The workers were digging around the cylinder trying to open it. D) The workers were trying to set the cylinder on fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The workers were digging around the cylinder trying to open it. 48. If I sensationalize a report, I most likely ..... A) Pay people to read it. B) Exaggerate it to make it exciting. C) Plagiarize it. D) Make it up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggerate it to make it exciting. 49. 1 What do paragraphs 6 and 7 reveal about Ogilvy? A) He is experienced in studying meteorites. B) He is a scientist. C) He is usually a brave person. D) He is more curious than scared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is more curious than scared. 50. Fill in the blank:The surgeon made a ..... incision across her abdomen. A) Ethereal. B) Transient. C) Incandescent. D) Transverse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transverse. 51. The train passed under the mountains through a ..... A) Ant. B) None. C) Lonely. D) Tunnel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tunnel. 52. ' ..... shattered into pieces which clattered over the tiles and rained down on us.' If the pieces 'rained down' on them, they are likely to get: A) Injured. B) Rich. C) Sad. D) Wet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Injured. 53. Order these events chronologically as they occur in the story:What was the last event? A) A specter rises from the pit accompanied by a cloud and a drone sound. B) The Martian vessel sinks into the pit. C) A light flashes and people begin catching on fire. D) The narrator stares at the pit as the crowds approach it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Martian vessel sinks into the pit. 54. When the author finally went outside, he found ..... A) Red plants growing everywhere. B) His wife. C) A hungry little dog. D) His dead companion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red plants growing everywhere. 55. How did newspapers feel about radio in the 1930s? A) Resentful. B) Impressed. C) Curious. D) Indifferent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resentful. 56. What does the Heat-Ray turn water into? A) Oxygen. B) Steam. C) Vapor. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steam. 57. Fill in the blank:The ..... of the moment passed when she made a joke that caused everyone to laugh. A) Incandescence. B) Conjecture. C) Gravity. D) Calamity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravity. 58. How do the Martians move around on Earth? A) By flying in their spacecraft. B) On foot, like humans. C) By teleportation. D) Using tripods, large three-legged walking machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using tripods, large three-legged walking machines. 59. What do the Martians seem to be developing? A) Mind control devices. B) Invisibility cloaks. C) Time travel devices. D) Flying machines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flying machines. 60. What literary technique is the following quote:"a line of flame high in the sky" A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. 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