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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the tripods do when they see the ship?

2. What does Will do when he sees Henry at the beginning of the book?

3. What is Ozymandias searching for?

4. What does Will call his secret hide-out?

5. What does Ozymandias say is similar with all vagrants before they were capped?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Schmad-Fair, and how it helps Will?

2. What do the boys find in an underground tunnel in the ruined city?

3. What is Ozymandias's explanation about the vagrants?

4. What does Ozymandias tell Will about the tripods?

5. What does Will do that finally gets Henry to leave him alone, and what prompts him to do this?

6. What happens when Henry comes to live with Will?

7. What are the Black Ages?

8. What happens when Henry catches Will trying to run away?

9. What is Ozymandias?

10. How does Beanpole feel about his relatives and home city?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Comic relief is a literary tool Christopher uses well in this book. What are some of the prime examples of this, and how do these scenes affect the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

The future and the past are ingeniously combined and intertwined in this book. Where in the plot does this unique literary tool come into play, and how does its use affect the plot?

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