CHAPTER 1

1. What is the condition of Mars if you compare it to Earth? (p.9)

2. Why did the Martians turn their attention to Earth? (p.9)

3. According to the astronomers, what were strange lights? what were they actually? (p.9)

4. When the cylinder came, what did Henderson and Ogilvy do? (p.10)

5. What were people expecting to see in the cylinder and what did they find? (p.12-13)

6. Describe the Martians. (p.13)

CHAPTER 2
1. While a large group of people were moving towards the cylinder, what were they carrying and
why? What happened to those people? (p.19)

2. According to Ogilvy, why couldn’t the Martians live on Earth? (p.22)

3. Even if people heard about the Martians, why didn’t they get anxious or fearful? (p.22)
 CHAPTER 3

1. Where was the narrator? Who was he talking with and about? (p.29)

2. What did the Martians look like? (p.30)

3. Why were the narrator and his wife going, and why? How? (p.30)

4. What did the third falling star mean? (p.30)

5. What happened to the owner of the Spotted dog? How did the narrator find out? (p.32)

6. What was the miracle? (p.34)

7. Why/What was the crowd watching silently? (p.34)

CHAPTER 4
1. Why did the Martians carry their friends? (p.43)

2. How did the army and the Navy understand the power of the invaders? (p.43)

3. What was the best chance for the narrator to escape? (p.43)
4. Who was the man sitting near the narrator in the shadow of a tree? (p.44)

5. What happened to that man? What did he think about the Martians? (p.44)

6. What was the narrator’s brother’s job? Why wasn’t he worried about the narrator? (p.45)

7. Early on Monday morning, what happened in London? (p.45)

8. While the Martians were attacking, what were the narrator and the curate doing? and why? (p.46)

9. What was the narrator's brother doing? What happened between him and the two women? (p.47)

10. What was “the thunder child”? And what did it do? (p.48)

CHAPTER 5
1. What was the narrator doing? What did he think about? (p.53)

2. what did the narrator think about curate? (p.53)

3. How did the black smoke go away? (p.54)

4. What is the Martian’s purpose for humans? (p.54)

5. What can you say about the metal spider? (p.55)

6. What was the anatomy of the Martians? (p.56)

7. What were the Martian’s three differences from humans? (p.56)

CHAPTER 6
1. On what did not the narrator and curate agree? (p.64)

2. What did the machine do? (p.65)

3. What happened to the man( who was middle-aged and well-dressed) (p.65) ?

4. What did the curate do? What happened to him? (p.66)

CHAPTER 7
1. What is the condition of the narrator? How did he feel? (P.74)

2. How did the narrator understand that he was not deaf? (P.75)
3. Why did the narrator think that he was not the master of his own planet? (P.76)

4. Why couldn’t the red weed live long on our planet? (P.76)

CHAPTER 8
1. What did the narrator do the curate? (P.88)

2. Why did the narrator say that he understood how the animals felt? (P.89)

3. Who was the man that the narrator had talked? ? (P.89)

4. What was the plan of the man? (P.90)

5. Why were the Martians still and what happened to them? ? (P.91)

CHAPTER 9
1. Why were people delighted at the news? (P.98)
2. Why did the narrator feel sad and lonely when he learned that leather had been destroyed by the
Martians? (P.99)

3. How did the narrator describe the current situation of his house? (P.99)

4. Who did the narrator see in the garden of his house? (P.100)

5. At last, what did scientists find about Martians? (P.100)

EVALUATION
1. What do you think about the story?

2. How can you summarize the story?

3. What would it be if you could change one thing in the story?

4. If you could change the end of the story, how would you change it?