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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) Burns it
(b) Tears it to shreds
(c) Takes it home
(d) Reads it to the other students

2. What color is the light Andy sees soon after waking?
(a) Orange
(b) White
(c) Red
(d) Blue

3. What time does the first plane arrive on the scene?
(a) Just before noon
(b) There are no planes
(c) Within minutes of the attack
(d) Soon after eight o'clock.

4. What is the name of the family's boat?
(a) The Angel
(b) Edward Scissorhands
(c) The Flying Pie
(d) Edelweiss

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

6. Who goes with Laurie and Andy to get a look at a Tripod nearby?
(a) Hilda
(b) Pa
(c) Marriott
(d) No one

7. How far away is the farmhouse from Laurie's location?
(a) Only a few meters
(b) A couple of hundred meters
(c) At least five hundred meters
(d) At least fifty meters

8. What does Uncle Ian say they have been given in order to become part of the brotherhood?
(a) Small Tripods
(b) The Trippy Show
(c) Caps
(d) Wealth

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

10. What does Laurie say about the rules of their camping expedition?
(a) That they are not to ask for help
(b) That they are to call their parents daily
(c) That they are not to sleep outside
(d) That they are to hide from the Tripods

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

12. Where does Laurie know Martha intends for the family to go?
(a) Switzerland
(b) London
(c) Guernsey
(d) Dartmoor

13. What causes Angela to attack Laurie?
(a) He tells her he didn't tape the Trippy show
(b) He tells her he at her chocolate chip cookies
(c) He calls her a Trippy
(d) He shoves her agains the stair railing

14. What is the warning given by the Head Man at school?
(a) To beware of anyone offering Caps
(b) To only watch the Trippy Show with an adult
(c) To attend school no matter what
(d) To watch the Trippy Show no matter what

15. What does Martha pull from her purse when she sees Laurie is in trouble?
(a) A cell phone
(b) A pistol
(c) A chain for hypnotizing Ian
(d) A can of Mace

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the landings was sighted first?

2. What does Wild Bill say he did to another copy of the Daily Mail that addressed Trippies?

3. What company planned to sponsor a television adaptation of the Tripods?

4. What does Andy see outside the window that he points out to Laurie?

5. Who is the panelist who is critical of the idea that the Tripods don't have infrared capabilities?

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