The Scorch Trials Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on James Dashner’s The Scorch Trials (2010) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- What does WICKED call the next stage after the Maze survivors wake in the dormitory? — Phase Two - the Trials, beginning with the Scorch crossing. Rat Man reads the rules to a room of pajama-clad subjects: Phase Two, two weeks, one hundred miles of Scorch between them and the Safe Haven.
- What is the Scorch? — The sun-flare-blasted desert strip between the equator and the north. Solar flares seared a band of the planet into desert - the crossing of it, on foot, is this book's whole trial.
- Who or what are Cranks? — People infected with the Flare, the mind-eating virus released after the flares. The Flare drives its infected into madness - Cranks roam the Scorch's cities in every stage of decay, from talking to tearing.
- What is tattooed on the back of Thomas's neck? — To be killed by Group B. The tag reads 'To be killed by Group B' - Group B being the girls' maze, Teresa's new team, and the instruction is carried out with theatrical precision.
- Who leads Thomas out of the mountains and across the Scorch's cities? — Brenda and Jorge, a Crank pair with working self-control. Brenda, half-turned but holding on, and Jorge, the pilot who runs the Crank underworld's stairwells, guide the Gladers through the storm and the city.
- What does Teresa - under orders - do to Thomas in Group B's camp? — Stages his capture and a slow death, playing the betrayer to the end. Teresa's performance is complete with ropes, a pit and cold sentences - WICKED wanted the betrayal, and the audience was always watching.
- What flattens half the Gladers on the Scorch's open stretch? — A lightning storm that drops ball-sized strikes on the flats. The storm kills several Gladers in a single chapter - the sky, not the Cranks, is the Scorch's most efficient executioner.
- How does the book end for Thomas and Teresa? — Separated by WICKED after Teresa insists WICKED is good. Teresa tells him WICKED is good and means it - and the ride ends with the subjects sorted away from each other, a walk back into the dormitory world.
About The Scorch Trials
WICKED's survivors of the Maze wake in a dormitory, are told the trials have only begun, and get two weeks and a Flat Trans to cross a hundred miles of sun-scorched wasteland - past Cranks, storms and a betrayal that was scripted before it happened. Book two of the Maze Runner trilogy widens the maze to the size of a desert. The novel runs about 101,000 words (roughly 360 pages in a standard paperback) — about 7 hours and 4 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read The Scorch Trials or calculate reading time for any other book.
Moderate - plain, fast prose with a slang of its own (shuck, klunk, Crank) and a plot that withholds as much as it shows. The reading is easy; trusting the narrator is the hard part. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
James Dashner’s The Scorch Trials sits in our dystopia & allegory shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for The Scorch Trials to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Scorch Trials quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering James Dashner's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Scorch Trials book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Scorch Trials quiz hard?
Moderate - plain, fast prose with a slang of its own (shuck, klunk, Crank) and a plot that withholds as much as it shows. The reading is easy; trusting the narrator is the hard part. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Scorch Trials reading itself?
About 101,000 words — roughly 360 pages, or about 7 hours and 4 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read The Scorch Trials.