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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys decide to do?
(a) Kill the man on the island.
(b) Tell the man they will come back after the games.
(c) Steal the man's boat.
(d) Work faster.

2. How does Will feel about what he did to the man on the island?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Excited.
(d) Confused.

3. Why are the boys having a difficult time beaching the raft?
(a) The banks are too far away.
(b) The current is too strong.
(c) They have no means to steer it.
(d) They have no strength from not eating.

4. Why does Beanpole suggest they make a raft?
(a) To catch some fish.
(b) So they don't have to walk.
(c) To speed up their journey.
(d) To help find a barge.

5. What was wrong with most of the nails the boys tried to use for the raft?
(a) They were twisted and rusted.
(b) They were too short.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They were too thin.

6. What does Will find at the dock when he returns there?
(a) Beanpole beat him back.
(b) Moritz is in trouble with Ulf.
(c) Ulf is in a rage.
(d) The barge is gone.

7. How does Henry feel about not being chosen?
(a) Happy.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Angry.

8. How did Will kill the answer to question #10?
(a) With electricity.
(b) With an ancient metal ball.
(c) With an arrow.
(d) With a knife.

9. Why did Will, Henry, and Beanpole travel together?
(a) As a vacation before college.
(b) To see the sights.
(c) They ran away from their parents.
(d) To find the people with whom they are living.

10. What does being hungry make the boys do?
(a) Eat raw fish.
(b) Chew on the wood in the raft.
(c) Start to drink river water.
(d) They begin to argue.

11. Why do Will, Henry, and Beanpole want to win at the games?
(a) To impress the girls.
(b) To get inside the Tripod City.
(c) For glory and a medal.
(d) For money.

12. How does the man on the island feel about the Tripods?
(a) He is working with them.
(b) He hates them.
(c) He thinks they are good for the earth.
(d) He has no hostility towards them.

13. What does the boys' guide do when they reach the docks?
(a) Stays with them.
(b) Leaves to return to the camps.
(c) Goes into town.
(d) Boards a ship.

14. How long has the man lived on the island?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) The past twenty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) All his life.

15. Where does the island man take the boys after breakfast?
(a) To a field.
(b) To the forest.
(c) To the village.
(d) To the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Will and Henry feel about being chosen?

2. How many cats were sitting by the fire where Will was sleeping on the island?

3. With what do the boys use to build a raft?

4. What happens to people who enter the Tripod City?

5. When did the man on the island dad die?

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