War of the Worlds AR Quiz Answers

Accelerated Reader is a reading program designed for students’ reading practice.

It’s suitable for various settings, including in-person, remote, and hybrid learning.

Based on student’s interests, AR includes goals, quizzes, and recommendations.

The program tracks progress through reports and offers insights into students’ literacy.

Additionally, it provides user-friendly tools for administrators, teachers, and families.

This guide contains all of the War of the Worlds AR quiz answers by Pauline Francis (Renaissance Accelerated Reading).

Question: How did the newspaper boy describe the Martians at the start of the story?

Answer: “Dead men from Mars”.

Question: The first Martian was described in all of these ways EXCEPT on. Which one?

Answer: It had greenish skin.

Question: Having reached Leatherhead, the narrator went back to Marybury Hill. Why?

Answer: He wanted to be there to see the Martians destroyed.

Question: Who accompanied the narrator as he headed towards London?

Answer: A soldier.

Question: Who saved the narrator from certain death near the village of Shepperton?

Answer: The nearest Martians were busy tending one of their dead.

Question: Where did the narrator’s brother head for?

Answer: France.

Question: What did the narrator conclude as he observed the fifth cylinder?

Answer: Earth’s stronger gravity made it difficult for the Martians to move.

Question: Why did the narrator hit the curate with the handle of a meat-chopper?

Answer: The curate had tried to go and speak the word of God to the Martians.

Question: What killed off the Martians?

Answer: They fed from people on earth, and died from the germs.

Question: Where was a Martian tripod left standing at the end of the story?

Answer: Primrose Hill.

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