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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the club Angela joins?
(a) The pony club
(b) The Trippy fan club
(c) The science club
(d) The chess club

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Martha call after Ian leaves?

2. What does Laurie say about the rules of their camping expedition?

3. How many were actually made?

4. What does the newscaster say will be the way to overcome the Tripods?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the Trippy show that Laurie sees for the first time.

2. Describe the encounter between the tank and the Tripod.

3. What does Wild Bill say each of the Tripods did after they landed the first time?

4. Why does Ilse offer Laurie cookies and why does he refuse?

5. Describe Laurie's father.

6. What does Laurie say is the difference between his calling Ilse by her name and Andy calling Miranda by her name?

7. How much input does the author say he had in the movie project and why does he say that's acceptable?

8. What is the reaction of police when people are reported missing and why?

9. Why doesn't Laurie's family see much of his Aunt and Uncle?

10. What does Caroline say happened to Ian and Nathanael?

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