1.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to andfro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in theirassurance of their empire over matter. No one gave athought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, orthought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossibleor improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits ofthose departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might beother men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcomea missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that areto our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellectsvast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes,and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in thetwentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage ofexhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressureof necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, andhardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, andintelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at itsnearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morningstar of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey withwater, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpsesthrough its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous countryand narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

What does this line tell you about men in the last years of the nineteenth century?

With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globeabout their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empireover matter. (4 points)

	They lacked direction.
	They felt bored.
	They did important work.
	They felt superior to anything else.

2.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of spaceas sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the ideaof life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recallsome of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrialmen fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior tothemselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yetacross the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are tothose of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage ofexhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressureof necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, andhardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, andintelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at itsnearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morningstar of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey withwater, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpsesthrough its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous countryand narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

What does this line tell you about the relationship between humans and the aliens?

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as oursare to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. (4 points)

	Humans are searching for the aliens.
	The aliens are disinterested in humans.
	Humans are friends with the aliens.
	The aliens are more intelligent than humans.

3.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of spaceas sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the ideaof life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recallsome of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrialmen fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior tothemselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across thegulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of thebeasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regardedthis earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plansagainst us. And early in the twentieth century came the greatdisillusionment.

Which of these statements best describes humans as they are depicted in paragraph one of this excerpt? (4 points)

	They are known for working hard.
	They consider themselves superior.
	They are kind and generous.
	They love to feel helpful.

4.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of thenineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closelyby intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; thatas men busied themselves about their various concerns they werescrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as aman with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures thatswarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency menwent to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene intheir assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that theinfusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to theolder worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of themonly to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departeddays. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men uponMars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionaryenterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds asours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cooland unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth centurycame the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage ofexhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressureof necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, andhardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, andintelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at itsnearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morningstar of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey withwater, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpsesthrough its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous countryand narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

Read this line from The War of the Worlds:

That as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied

What does this line imply about humans? (4 points)

	They had little reason to feel anger at what happened.
	They had active and fulfilling lives.
	They ignored multiple signs of impending danger.
	They did not realize they were being watched.

5.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under themicroscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds ofspace as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss theidea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious torecall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At mostterrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhapsinferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yetacross the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are tothose of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth centurycame the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That laststage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. Theimmediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects,enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking acrossspace with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcelydreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of milessunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, greenwith vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquentof fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broadstretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

Read this line from The War of the Worlds:

That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incrediblyremote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars…

What does the last stage of exhaustion imply about Mars? (4 points)

	The inhabitants have little physical strength left.
	The inhabitants of Mars have become ancient.
	The planet has moved farther away from the Sun.
	The planet is nearing its last days.

6.

(LC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under themicroscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds ofspace as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss theidea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious torecall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At mostterrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhapsinferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yetacross the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are tothose of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth centurycame the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage ofexhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressureof necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, andhardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, andintelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at itsnearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morningstar of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey withwater, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpsesthrough its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous countryand narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

In three to five complete sentences, describe howthe inhabitants of Mars felt about humans on earth. Use evidence fromthe text to support your answer. (10 points)

7.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under themicroscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds ofspace as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss theidea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious torecall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At mostterrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhapsinferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yetacross the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are tothose of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth centurycame the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole andperiodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage ofexhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become apresent-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressureof necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, andhardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, andintelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at itsnearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morningstar of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey withwater, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpsesthrough its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous countryand narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to themat least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. Theintellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessantstruggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief ofthe minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and thisworld is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regardas inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their onlyescape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creepsupon them.

What key idea does the text below suggest?

Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we knownow that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barelyapproaches that of our coldest winter. (4 points)

	Despite gaps in our knowledge, we do know the planet is cooling.
	In the middle of the day, it is cooler than it should be.
	Regions of the planet are cooler than many others on Earth.
	The conditions on the planet are still unknown.

8.

(MC)

The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenthcentury that this world was being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that asmen busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinisedand studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscopemight scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in adrop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over thisglobe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of theirempire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under themicroscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds ofspace as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss theidea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious torecall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At mostterrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhapsinferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yetacross the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are tothose of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool andunsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly andsurely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth centurycame the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer,up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea thatintelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all,beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that sinceMars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficialarea and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is notonly more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet hasalready gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition isstill largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorialregion the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldestwinter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans haveshrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slowseasons change h

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