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Møte 1: Book 1 to Chapter 12

1. What would give people a fair claim to rule another world?
2. How would you judge Ogilvy's decision to seek help after finding signs of life?
3. What responsibility might newspapers have when their reports draw spectators toward something unknown?
4. How should we judge people fleeing danger when their panic harms others?
5. When does trying to calm someone become a way of hiding from danger yourself?

Møte 2: Chapters 13 to 1

6. What might the curate gain or lose by seeing the invasion as divine judgment?
7. How might reassuring reports shape people's willingness to believe later warnings?
8. What does the defeat of hidden batteries suggest about the limits of military preparation?
9. What should authorities weigh when deciding to urge an entire city to evacuate?
10. How might joining others change the choices available to someone escaping through frightened crowds?

Møte 3: Chapters 2 to 10

11. What value might studying the Martians have for people trapped beside them?
12. What would make a division of supplies fair between two trapped survivors?
13. How should immediate danger affect our judgment of the narrator's use of force against his companion?
14. How might fearing that humanity has almost disappeared change the meaning of searching for food?
15. When does a bold survival plan become an excuse to avoid doing useful work?

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