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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 The City of the Ancients.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when people turn 14 years of age?
(a) They are given a trade.
(b) They are tested.
(c) They are capped.
(d) They are sent away to school.

2. What does the captain tell Will and Henry NOT to do when they reach the end of their sea journey?
(a) Look people in the eye.
(b) Be detected.
(c) Speak.
(d) Travel during the day.

3. What country is the place that the tripods do not go?
(a) Italy.
(b) Russia.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

4. Where does Will arrange to speak with Ozymandias?
(a) At the vagrant house.
(b) In his barn.
(c) Behind the school.
(d) In the den.

5. What does Will do that makes Henry leave him alone?
(a) Acts crazy.
(b) Makes fun of his fear of tripods.
(c) Wins a fight.
(d) Threatens to tell his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ozymandias get his cap?

2. Why does Beanpole take Will off the course the map shows?

3. What kind of power does Beanpole think used to run the vehicles that used the train tracks?

4. What is the name of the busy port town that Will and Henry reach?

5. Why do the boys choose to walk through the ruined city?

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