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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a student do with the issue of the Daily Mail that addressed Trippies?
(a) Reads it to the other students
(b) Takes it home
(c) Tears it to shreds
(d) Burns it

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

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

4. How many tentacles do the boys see after the arrival of the tank?
(a) Three
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Eight

5. What are Pa and Martha drinking while listening to the television broadcasts?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Coffee
(c) Lemonade
(d) Soda

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

7. What does Martha say she wants Pa to do with Uncle Ian's briefcase?
(a) She wants it out of the house
(b) She wants to mail it to the government
(c) She wants to give it back to Uncle Ian
(d) She wants to hand the contents out to neighbors

8. How is the farmer dressed when he runs out of the house?
(a) In his robe
(b) In his underwear
(c) In a shirt and trousers
(d) In his pajamas

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

10. How old is Martha?
(a) In her seventies
(b) Seven
(c) Seventeen
(d) Forty-seven

11. What is Laurie doing when Uncle Ian arrives?
(a) Checking out the boat with his father
(b) Eating an apple
(c) Having lunch with Andy
(d) Watching television

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

13. How many of the shots fired from the fighter-bombers score hits?
(a) Six
(b) Two
(c) Too many to count
(d) Four

14. What kind of dog does Laurie believe he hears?
(a) A St. Bernard
(b) A Labrador
(c) A greyhound
(d) A poodle

15. How tall does Laurie say the Tripod is?
(a) Thirty meters
(b) Eighty meters
(c) As tall as King Kong
(d) Fifty meters

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the landings was sighted first?

2. What does Dr. Monmouth do to get Angela over her obsession?

3. How far away is the farmhouse from Laurie's location?

4. When does Pa say they'll leave the country?

5. Which of the following was NOT the site of a landing during the initial contact?

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