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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What title do the women at the tournament compete for?
(a) Wife of the knight.
(b) Queen of the tournament.
(c) Knightess of the tournament.
(d) Princess of the land.

3. What does Will say to Henry and Beanpole about the tournament?
(a) He was excited to leave.
(b) Everything.
(c) He loved it.
(d) Nothing.

4. 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 takes a horse.
(c) He walks away in the night.
(d) He follows Henry and Beanpole's trail.

5. What does Will lose while he is at the lake with his new friend?
(a) HIs desire to go to the mountains.
(b) His watch.
(c) His respect for Ellen.
(d) His hair.

6. What do the men in the White Mountains want to do?
(a) Reverse the effects of the caps.
(b) Make scientific discoveries.
(c) Destroy the tripods.
(d) Leave the Earth.

7. What does the river in Chapter 8 have in it at intervals?
(a) Bridges.
(b) Dams.
(c) Tripods.
(d) Posts.

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

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

10. What does Will and his new friend do at the lake?
(a) Catch fish.
(b) Go rowing.
(c) Sit on the shore.
(d) Go swimming.

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

12. What happens as Will rides out of the town?
(a) The priests curse him.
(b) The Comte asks him to join him.
(c) He is captured by the guards.
(d) The tripod picks him up.

13. Where is the thing that Beanpole finds on Will in Chapter 9?
(a) His knee.
(b) His armpit.
(c) His ear.
(d) His head.

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

15. What do the tripods use to search the forests?
(a) Fire.
(b) Search dogs.
(c) Tracking beacons.
(d) Their tentacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take for Will to catch up with Henry and Beanpole?

2. What does Henry NOT do to Will when he rejoins them?

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

4. What does the tripod do when it shows up at the tournament?

5. What happens when Will knows he is discovered?

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