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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 Will want to do when the thing is discovered on him?
(a) Approach the tripod.
(b) Leave the group.
(c) Stay put.
(d) Remove the thing.

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

3. What do the men at the White Mountains call themselves?
(a) Men of the world.
(b) Thinking men.
(c) Free men.
(d) Working men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Will find himself after he was seen leaving?

2. What does Will confess to the woman who was in the room where he woke up?

3. What do the tripods use to search the forests?

4. What is the name of the daughter of the woman who is in the room Will wakes up in?

5. What does the tripod do when the thing is removed from Will?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Will and Eloise go rowing?

2. Why is Will alone for most of the tournament, and what does he think about during this time?

3. How does Henry treat Will when he rejoins the group?

4. 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?

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

6. Why does Will abandon the plan Beanpole had made if they got captured in France?

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

8. How is the Queen of the Tournament selected?

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

10. How does Will describe his life at the end of the book?

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