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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 cannot find the boys?

2. What makes Will feel distanced from Beanpole and Henry?

3. What does Will learn about the female winner of the tournament?

4. How many miles do the boys travel in Chapter 8?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Henry and Beanpole find on Will in Chapter 9?

2. What happens when Will and Eloise go rowing?

3. How is the tripod destroyed?

4. What happens to the Queen of the Tournament, and how does she feel about this?

5. How do Will and Henry react to Beanpole's ideas about what they find in Chapter 8?

6. How is the Queen of the Tournament selected?

7. Where do the boys finally hide from the tripods?

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

9. What happens after the boys destroy the tripod?

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?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

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