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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Angela?
(a) Laurie's stepmother
(b) Laurie's sister
(c) Laurie's grandmother
(d) Laurie's mother

2. What company planned to sponsor a television adaptation of the Tripods?
(a) Japanese Broadcasting Corporation
(b) Public Broadcasting Corporation
(c) American Broadcasting Corporation
(d) British Broadcasting Corporation

3. What time does the first plane arrive on the scene?
(a) Soon after eight o'clock.
(b) There are no planes
(c) Just before noon
(d) Within minutes of the attack

4. What was Laurie's grandfather's occupation?
(a) He was a stockbroker
(b) He was in the military
(c) He was a banker
(d) He was a farmer

5. What causes Angela to attack Laurie?
(a) He tells her he at her chocolate chip cookies
(b) He calls her a Trippy
(c) He shoves her agains the stair railing
(d) He tells her he didn't tape the Trippy show

6. How many of the shots fired from the fighter-bombers score hits?
(a) Too many to count
(b) Six
(c) Four
(d) Two

7. What does Aunt Caroline say about Nathanael when she talks to Laurie on the phone?
(a) That he's safely at home
(b) That he's been killed
(c) That he's run away
(d) That he's going to try to convert Laurie

8. Which of the landings was sighted first?
(a) Tokoyo
(b) Montana
(c) Dartmoor
(d) The Soviet Union

9. What is the warning given by the Head Man at school?
(a) To watch the Trippy Show no matter what
(b) To attend school no matter what
(c) To beware of anyone offering Caps
(d) To only watch the Trippy Show with an adult

10. How many parts of the series were originally planned?
(a) Six
(b) Thirteen
(c) Two
(d) Three

11. Where does Laurie know Martha intends for the family to go?
(a) London
(b) Dartmoor
(c) Guernsey
(d) Switzerland

12. What is the government reaction when it's discovered that the Trippy Show is being broadcast from outer space?
(a) They ban television
(b) They warn people not to watch
(c) They try to jam the signal
(d) They produce an Anti-Trippy Show

13. What is on the television when Laurie wakes the following morning?
(a) A newscast about a new wave of Tripods
(b) The Trippy Show
(c) Music videos
(d) A soap opera

14. How many landings of the Tripods were there in the initial contact?
(a) Three
(b) One
(c) Six
(d) No one knows for sure

15. What does Andy think might be the source of the sound they hear just after daylight the next morning?
(a) Trains
(b) Farm machinery
(c) The Tripods
(d) The farmer's pickup

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say is often the key to winning a battle?

2. What chapter is Laurie studying in physics?

3. Why does Laurie believe the attacks on the Tripods are not televised?

4. Which of the following was NOT the site of a landing during the initial contact?

5. What is Laurie doing when Uncle Ian arrives?

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