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the War of the Worlds

  •  English    23     Public
    novel
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  • Who is the Author and where is he from?
    H.G. Wells, England
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  • What is the genre
    SCI FI - science fiction
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  • The narrator is.....(job)
    an author and a philosopher
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  • Who is Ogilvy?
    the narrator's friend - an astronomer
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  • What landed in Horsell Common?
    a metal cylinder with something inside
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  • Who is Henderson?
    A London journalist
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  • What is the name of the town the narrator is from?
    Woking
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  • describe the creatures that emerge from the cylinder.
    two disk-like eyes, tentacles like grey snakes and a beak like mouth
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  • What happens to Ogilvy?
    he is killed by a heat-ray when he walks towards the cylinder with a white flag
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  • who went to fight the Martians?
    the navy and the army
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  • did the people of Woking belive the narrator at first?
    no
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  • Where did the narrator and his wife escape to?
    to his wife's cousin in Leatherhead
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  • what did the narrator and his wife see when they were escaping Woking?
    a huge metal walking machine
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  • who does the narrator meet on the way to London?
    a curate
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  • how did the Martians attack London?
    with rockets that released deadly black smoke
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  • What happened to the narrator's brother?
    he tried to escape London on a boat
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