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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Andy think might be the source of the sound they hear just after daylight the next morning?
(a) The farmer's pickup
(b) Trains
(c) Farm machinery
(d) The Tripods

2. What does Laurie see clinging to the legs of the Tripod?
(a) Sensors
(b) People
(c) Small Tripods
(d) Vines

3. Who is Pa's sister?
(a) Martha
(b) Ilse
(c) Caroline
(d) Verity

4. How does the Tripod destroy the house?
(a) By burning it with a laser
(b) By stepping on it
(c) By smashing it with a tentacle
(d) It doesn't destroy it

5. What does the moon look like when Laurie makes his way to the window to see outside?
(a) It's full
(b) It's a quarter
(c) The moon is covered by clouds
(d) It's only a sliver

6. What is on the television when Laurie wakes the following morning?
(a) The Trippy Show
(b) A soap opera
(c) Music videos
(d) A newscast about a new wave of Tripods

7. What does Andy say the Tripod looks like?
(a) A torpedo
(b) A submarine
(c) A mechanical clown
(d) A futuristic robot

8. What does Andy suggest they do to get away?
(a) Call for help
(b) Run
(c) Disguise themselves
(d) Tunnel out of the shed

9. How many landings of the Tripods were there in the initial contact?
(a) Six
(b) Three
(c) No one knows for sure
(d) One

10. Why is Ilse going to Switzerland?
(a) Her mother is ill
(b) She's afraid of the Tripods
(c) Her father is ill
(d) To buy antiques

11. Who is Angela?
(a) Laurie's stepmother
(b) Laurie's mother
(c) Laurie's sister
(d) Laurie's grandmother

12. Which of the landings was sighted first?
(a) The Soviet Union
(b) Tokoyo
(c) Dartmoor
(d) Montana

13. What does Dr. Monmouth do to get Angela over her obsession?
(a) Sedates her
(b) Gives her Prozac
(c) Hypnotizes her
(d) Burns the tapes

14. What happens to the dragon in the Trippy Show?
(a) It wins the battle
(b) It's sent back to its cave
(c) It's killed by the knight
(d) It dissolves

15. What does Pa do with Uncle Ian's briefcase?
(a) Puts it in the shed
(b) Nothing
(c) Mails it to Uncle Ian
(d) Throws it in the dumpster

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Laurie doing when Uncle Ian arrives?

2. Where does Laurie know Martha intends for the family to go?

3. What is the name of the family's boat?

4. How many of the shots fired from the fighter-bombers score hits?

5. Why does Laurie believe the attacks on the Tripods are not televised?

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