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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the man on the island not capped?
(a) He has removed his cap.
(b) He works for the Tripods.
(c) He has never been around people.
(d) He is from another country.

2. What hit Will on the head in the river?
(a) A log.
(b) A plank from the raft.
(c) A rock.
(d) An oar.

3. From what place does Will tell a man he has come?
(a) Novington.
(b) Tirol.
(c) Bankon.
(d) Unta.

4. What does Will find at the dock when he returns there?
(a) The barge is gone.
(b) Beanpole beat him back.
(c) Moritz is in trouble with Ulf.
(d) Ulf is in a rage.

5. At what sports are Will, Henry, and Beanpole working everyday?
(a) The sport assigned to them.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Their chosen sport.

6. What happened at the first house on whose door Beanpole knocked for food?
(a) Someone yelled at him to go away.
(b) They dumped eggs on him.
(c) The porch step broke.
(d) No one was home.

7. Where do the two boys spend the night the first night after they leave the village?
(a) Under some trees.
(b) On the river bank.
(c) In an abandoned cabin.
(d) In someone's barn.

8. How do Will and Henry feel about being chosen?
(a) Confident.
(b) Sometimes good sometimes unsure.
(c) Uncertain.
(d) They don't think about it.

9. How much dry space is there on the raft?
(a) One corner.
(b) All of the raft.
(c) Three corners.
(d) Half of the raft.

10. What is strange about the man who is on the island?
(a) He is very old.
(b) He has an extremely long beard.
(c) He has golden eyes.
(d) He is un-capped man.

11. With what do the boys use to build a raft?
(a) A couple of wooden barrels.
(b) Some plastic milk jugs.
(c) Some saplings they push over.
(d) One wall of a building.

12. How does Beanpole save Will's life?
(a) Pushes on his back making the water come out of his lungs.
(b) Pulls him from the water.
(c) Gives him artificial respiration.
(d) Stops the bleeding from his arm.

13. What is the first mate's name?
(a) Kenny.
(b) Billy.
(c) Moritz.
(d) Ulf.

14. Where are Will, Henry, and Beanpole at the start of the book?
(a) The City of Gold.
(b) White Mountain.
(c) New York.
(d) On an island.

15. Why do the men get agitated when Will tells them the place he is supposedly from?
(a) It's the name of the Tripod City.
(b) The men thought he was lying.
(c) The athlete from there beat theirs last year.
(d) Some people from that city stole some horses from them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many competitors will go to the games?

2. Why are Will, Henry, and Beanpole with the uncapped people?

3. Why was the vagrant Will spoke with wearing a fake cap?

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

5. With what are the three boys fitted?

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