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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles do the boys travel in Chapter 8?
(a) 75.
(b) 50.
(c) 125.
(d) 100.

2. Which direction does the river in Chapter 8 veer off to?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

3. What do the boys realize at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Will is getting sick again.
(b) They do not have enough supplies.
(c) The White Mountains may not exist.
(d) They are being followed.

4. What are the tripods that the boys see after they escape from the search party doing with their tentacles?
(a) Fighting with them.
(b) Intertwining them with each other.
(c) Merging them together.
(d) Cleaning them.

5. What makes Will decide to join his cousin and Beanpole again?
(a) Watching the Comtesse follow a tripod order.
(b) Learning that he will be capped that day.
(c) Seeing Eloise walk away.
(d) Seeing a vagrant.

6. What weapons do the boys use against the Tripod?
(a) Grenades.
(b) Axes.
(c) Ropes.
(d) Machine guns.

7. What does the tripod do when the thing is removed from Will?
(a) Grabs Henry.
(b) Shoots at them.
(c) Races towards them.
(d) Lets out an alarm.

8. What do the boys sneak away from in chapter 8?
(a) The Comtesse.
(b) Villagers.
(c) Tripods.
(d) Wild animals.

9. How does Will sneak away from the town the morning of the last day of the tournament?
(a) He swims in the river.
(b) He follows Henry and Beanpole's trail.
(c) He takes a horse.
(d) He walks away in the night.

10. How does Beanpole think the tripods are able to follow them?
(a) They are using logic.
(b) They are following their tracks.
(c) They can sense their heat.
(d) They did not get the whole tracking beacon out.

11. What do the boys see at the very end of Chapter 8?
(a) A castle.
(b) The White Mountains.
(c) More than one tripod.
(d) Another ruined city.

12. How close do the boys get to the tripods they see after successfully hiding from the search party?
(a) Within feet.
(b) 100 yards.
(c) They touch them.
(d) They see them from at least a mile away.

13. Why does Beanpole tell the other boys to run in the water?
(a) To cover their scent.
(b) To keep quiet.
(c) To keep them cool.
(d) To hide their tracks.

14. Who destroys the tripod?
(a) Henry.
(b) Will.
(c) Beanpole.
(d) They all do.

15. What does Will confess to the woman who was in the room where he woke up?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He is afraid of being capped.
(c) He wants to destroy the tripods.
(d) He hates his cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beanpole think boats used to be powered by?

2. What do the boys do when they know other tripods are coming?

3. What is the title of the woman who is in Will's room when he wakes up?

4. What does Will and his new friend do at the lake?

5. What does Will think about as the tournament goes on?

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