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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 does the madman outside of Thomas's window say he is in Chapter 2?

2. How old is Thomas in the dream he has at the end of Chapter 8?

3. For how long does Aris say some of the girls in his group had been at the Glade when he arrived in Chapter 19?

4. Who points out the people running toward Thomas and the other Gladers in Chapter 17?

5. Whose clothes catch fire from the lightning as the Gladers make their way through the storm in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Gladers manage to get the door to the common room open in Chapter 3? What do they do next?

2. What happens to Winston in Chapter 16? How does Thomas help Winston?

3. What is the mission that the man in the white suit gives to the Gladers in Chapter 11?

4. How does the man in the desert describe the Cranks in Chapter 18?

5. How does Aris describe his recent past when he meets the Gladers in Chapter 5?

6. What do the Gladers do after one in their group is killed by a "death ball" in Chapter 15?

7. How is the Gladers' journey toward the town described in Chapter 22?

8. How is the landscape described when the Gladers exit the underground tunnel in Chapter 17?

9. What happens when Thomas confronts the man in the white suit in Chapter 10?

10. Whom do the Gladers encounter on their journey in Chapter 23? What does this character reveal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe WICKED in The Scorch Trials. How and why was this organization formed? What are the objectives of WICKED? How are Thomas and Teresa involved in WICKED's objectives?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the encounter between Thomas and Teresa at the building in the desert. Why do you think that Teresa behaves as she does in this encounter? What are Thomas's impressions of Teresa? Why does Thomas lead the other Gladers to run away from the building after he leaves Teresa?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the dreams that Thomas has throughout The Scorch Trials. How old is Thomas in these dreams? What is revealed to Thomas and the reader regarding Thomas's past through the dreams? How do the dreams relate to WICKED?

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