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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 Will learn about the female winner of the tournament?

2. How does the female winner of the tournament feel about her title?

3. What happens as Will rides out of the town?

4. Where does Will think he got what Beanpole finds on him in Chapter 9?

5. What is the name of the daughter of the woman who is in the room Will wakes up in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boys do when the tripod is finally out of sight?

2. Why does Will abandon the plan Beanpole had made if they got captured in France?

3. How is the tripod destroyed?

4. What do the boys think the two tripods are doing at the end of the book?

5. What do the boys see after they successfully hide from the search party?

6. How does Will feel after he gets by the tripod, and where does he go?

7. What happens when Will and Eloise go rowing?

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

9. 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?

10. How does Will try to escape the city after the tournament?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What are the different stages of Will's relationship with Eloise, and how do these stages affect Will and the progression of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Rest and recuperation is something Will needed many times in this book. When does he need it, and what are some of the effects this rest has on the plot?

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