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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Games, and Chapter 6, The City of Gold and Lead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ulf do when the barge stops at a small village?
(a) Goes to town for dinner.
(b) Goes into town to see his parents.
(c) Goes into town on business.
(d) Goes to town to see his wife.

2. How long have the boys been without food?
(a) One day.
(b) Twelve hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) Three days.

3. What do they decide to do about steering the raft?
(a) Abandon the raft and swim for shore.
(b) Push it into the faster current.
(c) Beach it by a highway.
(d) Nothing.

4. Why was the vagrant Will spoke with wearing a fake cap?
(a) His mind couldn't handle a real one.
(b) He was too strong willed for a real one.
(c) He was deep in the mountains on his fourteenth birthday.
(d) His parents were part of the resistance.

5. Who did Will have to kill while he, Henry, and Beanpole were traveling?
(a) A mountain lion.
(b) A rabid dog.
(c) A criminal.
(d) A Tripod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beanpole tell the man on the island is the reason Will keeps asking about fighting the Tripods?

2. Begin their journey to the games?

3. When does the man wake the boys the next morning?

4. What does Beanpole convince Moritz to do when Ulf hasn't returned by evening?

5. When does Moritz become worried about Ulf?

(see the answer key)

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