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the War of the Worlds

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  • The narrator is.....(job)
    an author and a philosopher
  • What happened to the narrator's brother?
    he tried to escape London on a boat
  • What happens to Ogilvy?
    he is killed by a heat-ray when he walks towards the cylinder with a white flag
  • describe the creatures that emerge from the cylinder.
    two disk-like eyes, tentacles like grey snakes and a beak like mouth
  • What landed in Horsell Common?
    a metal cylinder with something inside
  • Who is the Author and where is he from?
    H.G. Wells, England
  • who went to fight the Martians?
    the navy and the army
  • what did the narrator and his wife see when they were escaping Woking?
    a huge metal walking machine
  • did the people of Woking belive the narrator at first?
    no
  • What is the genre
    SCI FI - science fiction
  • who does the narrator meet on the way to London?
    a curate
  • how did the Martians attack London?
    with rockets that released deadly black smoke
  • How did the curate die?
    the narrator hit him over the head with the handle of a knife
  • Who is Henderson?
    A London journalist
  • Who is Ogilvy?
    the narrator's friend - an astronomer
  • what colour is the vegetable kingdom on Mars?
    blood red
  • how did the narrator and the curate spy on the Martians?
    through a hole in the ceiling
  • Where did the narrator and his wife escape to?
    to his wife's cousin in Leatherhead
  • What is the name of the town the narrator is from?
    Woking
  • how did the narrator escape the long metallic tentacle that came through the ceiling?
    he hit in the coal cellar
  • what did the narrator do to escape the black smoke in Chapter 5?
    he hid in an abandoned house with the curate
  • describe the anatomy of the Martians.
    large brains, no digestive systems
  • what do Martians have no defence against?
    bacteria on earth
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