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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ilse's father do all day?
(a) Stares out a window
(b) Looks after the chickens
(c) Stays in bed or sits on the verandah
(d) Talks about the Tripods

2. What does Laurie say he sees as the most important task for the group?
(a) Keeping food stocked in the tunnels
(b) Laying the foundations of freedom for future generations
(c) Destroying Tripods
(d) Finding ways to destroy Caps

3. What is it that makes Laurie realize they are not in temporary exile?
(a) When Pa says they have to conserve food
(b) When he overhears Ilse crying
(c) When he has a birthday
(d) When Martha says she'll never be able to return to her business

4. Who is Rudi's father?
(a) The policeman
(b) The gardener
(c) The owner of the general store
(d) The mailman

5. What is xenophbia?
(a) Fear of Tripods
(b) Fear for foreigners
(c) Fear of anything with peanut butter
(d) Fear of spiders

6. What is the fate of the guesthouse after the family leaves it?
(a) It's burned
(b) It's taken over by the Tripods
(c) It's taken over by the Capped
(d) It becomes a jail

7. What does Martha cook during the trip?
(a) Beans and potatoes
(b) Stew
(c) Shrimp and steak
(d) Nothing

8. Where does Laurie plan to get the present he's going to give Angela?
(a) From a nearby farm
(b) From the village
(c) He's going to ask Ilse to make it
(d) From the hotel

9. Who built the first of the buildings owned by Ilse's family?
(a) A famous architect
(b) No one knows
(c) Her father
(d) Her grandfather

10. What is Pa's reaction when they see the first Tripod in Switzerland?
(a) He says there's nowhere else to go
(b) He says they'll have to run deeper into the mountains and hide
(c) He predicts the Swiss Army will rally
(d) He says they'll have to return to Dartmoor

11. What animals are there at the guesthouse?
(a) Sheep and goats
(b) Chickens and two cows
(c) Chickens, ducks and geese
(d) Cows and horses

12. How is it suggested that the might set off an avalanche?
(a) By luring the Tripod closer
(b) By shouting
(c) By rolling a boulder from a cliff
(d) By firing the shotgun

13. What excuse does Laurie give for wanting to see Andy?
(a) He has brought Andy's clean clothes
(b) He wants to talk Andy out of being Capped
(c) He has brought books
(d) He wants to talk Andy into being Capped

14. What does Laurie learn his father is planning to do?
(a) Move the family to an old rail tunnel
(b) Allow them all to be Capped
(c) Return home
(d) Join the army in order to fight

15. What does Pa say he has a right to do because Laurie and Andy disobeyed him?
(a) Cap them
(b) Take them home
(c) Talk to them
(d) Beat them

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pa try to pay for the plane tickets?

2. Who is the first to join the group?

3. What does the pilot say when Pa demands that he set a course for Geneva?

4. How many crew members are there on the plane?

5. What does Laurie come up with as an idea for a birthday gift for Angela?

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