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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when people turn 14 years of age?

2. What is the name of Will's best friend?

3. How are Will and Henry able to get through the port city unnoticed?

4. What is different about Ozymandias from all the other vagrants?

5. What is taken away from humans when they are capped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Will think after meeting with Jack a few times after his capping?

2. What is Ozymandias?

3. What do the boys find in an underground tunnel in the ruined city?

4. What does Will do when he finds a store full of watches?

5. What are the Black Ages?

6. What does Ozymandias tell Will about the tripods?

7. What happens when Will and Henry land in France?

8. How does Will describe Jean Paul?

9. What does Ozymandias do to help Will in his plan to escape being capped?

10. What happens while Will and Henry are sailing across the English Channel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character do you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How does this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

Despair is a theme that appears in a number of sensitive places in the plot. What are some of these places, and what role does despair play in this play?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the stories and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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