Question

In The War of the Worlds, the Martians invade England because:

A. they were sent by Germany to make the German invasion of England easier.
B. Mars is dying and Martians need a new place to live.
C. they are angry with the British for using nuclear weapons.
D. they want to steal resources from Earth to take back to Mars.

Answer 1

is it a book?

Answer 2

http://acecontent.apexlearning.com/Live/online/eng_I_cc_sem_2_2013/Unit_4/Lesson_1/Activity_68926/printables/Reading_Materials929450.htm

Answer 3

its just an essay

Answer 4

well I have no clue

Answer 5

Hmm.. I think it's B? (It's def not A or C.. I don't think it's D.) So B.

Answer 6

It's not A or D.. I think C.

Answer 7

I think it's B. (I remember they described it as tentacles (etc. etc) )

Answer 8

I think it's C but let me read back really quick..

Answer 9

4 was C. and this one is B.

Answer 10

The orb had left a path of destruction through the house and into the street. I was confused at first, but as I started to clean up and remembered the events of the day, the orb's message became clear.
At which point in the action does the story begin?
A. The middle
B. The beginning
C. An unknown point
D. The end

Answer 11

I'd say A.

Answer 12

In The War of the Worlds, where does the narrator begin the story?

A. After the events of the story have taken place
B. At an unknown time period within the story
C. Before the events of the story have happened
D. In the middle of the story's main source of action

Answer 13

A. If you read the beginning, it makes sense why it's A.

Answer 14

It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898
What makes the tone of the passage formal and scientific?
A. The narrator speaks quickly and in concise sentences.
B. The narrator uses puns or wordplay to talk about the Martians.
C. The narrator mentions death and destruction several times.
D. The narrator quotes facts about Mars and sounds well educate

Answer 15

@lanadelreyx

Answer 16

I think D.

Answer 17

Wells creates _____ at the beginning of The War of the Worlds by having the narrator recall past events and providing hints about what happened.

A. suspense
B. bias
C. history
D. conflict

Answer 18

I believe it's C.

Answer 19

What is Wells warning the people of England about in the first four chapters of The War of the Worlds?

A. That England's astronomical societies were unaware of new technologies
B. That England's guard was down and England wasn't ready for an enemy attack
C. That England's factories were polluting the air and causing health problems
D. That England's children were not being well educated in math or science

Answer 20

I think B or C.. Mostly B.

Answer 21

Multiple Choice: Please select the best answer and click "submit."

Read the following passage:

The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898
What is the tone of this passage?
A. Resentful
B. Cheerful
C. Panic-stricken
D. Academic

Answer 22

C and D..

Answer 23

i can only choice one

Answer 24

But it said Multiple-choice...

Answer 25

Well then I'd say D.

Answer 26

yes to either choice a b c d

Answer 27

Oh, It's D.

Answer 28

What is a retrospective narrator?

A. A character who can hear the thoughts of other characters in the story
B. A character who gives false details about the story
C. A character who tells what happens in chronological order
D. A character who recalls events that have already happened

Answer 29

A.

Answer 30

Why does the narrator of The War of the Worlds use such precise and scientific language?

A. To show that the narrator is an average person
B. To explain the story from the Martians' point of view
C. To establish the story's credibility
D. To make the reader question the narrator's intelligence

Answer 31

It's not A.. or D...I don't think it's B. I'll go with C.

Answer 32

And invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily toward me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were sending us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898
Which word from the passage helps to create a sense of fear and anxiety?
A. struggle
B. incredible
C. minute
D. steadily

Answer 33

..I think it's A or B.

Answer 34

Why doesn't Wells choose a more familiar enemy to launch an attack on England, instead of Martians, in The War of the Worlds?

A. He thought that the British audience would be less frightened by Martians than by Germans.
B. He was interested in astronomy and thought the idea of Martians coming to Earth was interesting.
C. He didn't want the audience to believe that his story was true.
D. He wanted to show what happens when a country is caught unaware by an enemy.

Answer 35

@lanadelreyx

Answer 36

I think its D or C.

Answer 37

didnt pass

Answer 38

Multiple Choice: Please select the best answer and click "submit."

Read the following passage:

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898
How does H. G. Wells create suspense in the opening paragraph of The War of the Worlds?
A. By having the narrator recall the story's past events and giving hints about what happened
B. By explaining how ruthless the Martians are and telling the reader exactly what they will do
C. By informing the reader that the narrator will survive the terrifying events of the story
D. By allowing the reader to believe that all of the characters in the story will die at the end

Answer 39

Sorry :P

Answer 40

..Soz ;-;

Answer 41

:(

Answer 42

😞

Answer 43

I recently read the book, wish I could've helped.