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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 do the boys do when they know other tripods are coming?
(a) They dig a hole and climb in.
(b) They climb into the tripod.
(c) They prepare to fight more tripods.
(d) They run as fast as they can.

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

3. Where does Will think he got what Beanpole finds on him in Chapter 9?
(a) In the ruined city.
(b) On the boat.
(c) In the tripod.
(d) At the castle.

4. What does Beanpole think boats used to be powered by?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Currents.
(c) Steam.
(d) Paddles.

5. What does Will say to Henry and Beanpole about Eloise joining the tripods?
(a) How surprised he was.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That it helped him decide to escape.
(d) How disgusted it was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will say to Henry and Beanpole about the tournament?

2. What do Beanpole and Henry do during the celebration at the end of Chapter 6?

3. What do the men at the White Mountains call themselves?

4. What does Will lose while he is at the lake with his new friend?

5. How does Beanpole think the tripods are able to follow them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boys see at the very end of Chapter 8, and how do they feel?

2. How is the tripod destroyed?

3. How is the Queen of the Tournament selected?

4. What happens after the Queen of the Tournament is selected, and what does this make Will realize?

5. What do the boys do when the tripod is finally out of sight?

6. What happens between the boys and the Tripod in Chapter 8?

7. How does Will try to escape the city after the tournament?

8. What happens to the relationship between the boys while Will is regaining strength after falling ill?

9. What does Will say when he meets up with Beanpole and Henry?

10. How are the tripods able to track the boys after they have killed the one tripod, and what do the boys do to avoid this?

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