The Fever Code
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40 free The Fever Code trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Fever Code is the book that fills in the blanks. Readers of the original trilogy met Thomas as a boy with no memory; this prequel shows the years before, when he and Teresa were raised by WICKED and helped design the very Maze their friends would be sent into. This quiz covers the whole novel: the prologue with Newt and his sister, the secret midnight meetings, Minho's escape attempt, the outbreak among WICKED's own staff, and the last twist delivered by Dr. Ava Paige. A few questions step back to the wider world of the series, its slang and its timeline. It suits readers who have just finished the book, students preparing for a reading quiz, and fans testing how much of the backstory they remember. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches you something.
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Q 01What was Thomas's name before WICKED forced him to accept a new one in The Fever Code?
Stephen
Stephen clung to his real name until WICKED broke his resistance by force. He was only about five years old at the time.
Q 02The Fever Code reveals that Teresa was once which little girl from an earlier prequel?
Deedee
Deedee was the immune child who survives the first prequel. Teresa reminds Thomas of that past life to steady him before a grim mission.
Q 03In The Fever Code, Newt's little sister Lizzy is taken by WICKED and given which new name?
Sonya
Sonya grew up apart from her brother in a separate group of girls. With Thomas's help, Newt sneaked in to say goodbye before he was sent into the Maze.
Q 04In The Fever Code, what does WICKED unleash on Minho as punishment for trying to escape?
A Griever
A Griever was set on Minho while he sat tied to a chair, then halted just short of hurting him. WICKED repeated the scene so other subjects could watch.
Q 05What does Dr. Paige confess to Thomas as he loses consciousness at the end of The Fever Code?
She infected the staff
She infected the staff herself, because WICKED's leaders wanted to stop after the Maze Trials. She then had Thomas and the others kill the very people she had made sick.
Q 06In which U.S. state is WICKED's hidden headquarters, where Thomas grows up in The Fever Code?
Alaska
Alaska hides the complex deep in a forest. The Maze itself is built there too, underneath the WICKED buildings.
Q 07In The Fever Code, how do Thomas and Teresa talk in secret from their separate rooms at WICKED?
Telepathy
Telepathy links the pair through implants WICKED placed in their heads. Thomas later uses it to call Teresa for help when a Flare-crazed officer attacks him in the woods.
Q 08In WICKED's full name in The Fever Code, the word Killzone refers to which part of the body?
The brain
The brain is the Flare's kill zone, so WICKED's whole experiment is built around recording how immune children's minds react to what it puts them through.
Q 09Which drugged drink does Dr. Paige hand Thomas on the morning he enters the Maze in The Fever Code?
Tea
Tea was Paige's final trick, laced with anesthetic. As it took hold she told Thomas he had always been too trusting.
Q 10The final scene of The Fever Code leads straight into the opening of which novel?
The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner had been published seven years earlier, in 2009. Readers of the prequel therefore already knew what was waiting for Thomas when it stopped.
Q 11Which boy do Thomas and Teresa find crying in a hallway in The Fever Code, then treat as a brother?
Chuck
Chuck begged them not to report him for being out of his room. WICKED insisted on calling him Charles, and Thomas shortened it on the spot.
Q 12In The Fever Code, what name does Dr. Paige give the secret mission to kill infected WICKED staff?
The Purge
The Purge sent four immune teenagers through the complex with syringes of poison. Their targets were about twenty infected staff, WICKED's leader among them.
Q 13In The Fever Code, where is Thomas flown to test the long-range reach of his implant?
The Scorch
The Scorch later hosts the second phase of the Trials. On this first visit Thomas walks a desert tunnel that escaping prison inmates had once dug.
Q 21Where are Thomas, Teresa, Minho and Alby sent as punishment for sneaking outside in The Fever Code?
The Crank pits
The Crank pits lay beneath the complex, where WICKED penned infected people for study. Fences kept the children safe, but the walk left all four badly shaken.
Q 22Which boy from WICKED's gardens joins Minho's failed escape plan in The Fever Code?
Gally
Gally was the only one willing to go. Minho later beat him up, suspecting that his loose tongue had given the plan away.
Q 23Which boy is Rachel's partner in designing Group B's Maze in The Fever Code?
Aris
Aris and Rachel mirror Thomas and Teresa as elite subjects for the second group. All four are later sent on the same deadly errand inside the complex.
Q 14The Fever Code shows how Newt came by his limp; what did he do inside the Maze?
Jumped from a wall
Newt jumped from a wall in despair a little over a year into the Trials. Thomas pieces it together from footage after seeing Alby help him limp across the Glade.
Q 15The Fever Code ends with Thomas, his past forgotten, standing up inside what?
The Box
The Box is the supply lift that carries newcomers up into the Glade. The prequel stops at the exact moment the original story begins.
Q 16Which American author, also behind The 13th Reality series, wrote The Fever Code?
James Dashner
James Dashner said he had wanted from the start to write a prequel that follows Thomas and his friends right up to the moment he enters the trials.
Q 17In The Fever Code, what slang name is given to people who cannot catch the Flare?
Munies
Munies are the rare immune survivors, most of them children. WICKED gathers them at its hidden complex to learn why the virus cannot harm them.
Q 18Thomas helps test a Flat Trans in The Fever Code; what does this WICKED device do?
Teleports people
A Flat Trans teleports people between distant places. Thomas walks through its shimmering grey wall in a tunnel and comes out in a WICKED building close to home.
Q 19Which Glader, the first to die in the Maze Trials, turns violent after a sting in The Fever Code?
George
George was stung while out running the corridors. An early cure sent up by WICKED only made him worse, and Alby killed him to save another boy.
Q 20Newt is not immune to the Flare; why does WICKED still take him in The Fever Code's prologue?
As a control subject
As a control subject, Newt gives WICKED a non-immune child to compare against the others. He grows up knowing the Flare could take him one day.
Q 24On a Berg flight in The Fever Code, which girl tells Thomas he should make a move with Teresa?
Brenda
Brenda says the two are clearly more than friends. She then heads off to a city of the infected, hinting she will see Thomas again, which leaves him puzzled.
Q 25Before the Maze in The Fever Code, Thomas's friends undergo which memory-suppressing procedure?
The Swipe
The Swipe took Thomas by surprise. Watching from the observation room, he realised his friends' memories were gone, something WICKED had never mentioned to him.
Q 26The Fever Code is the second prequel in its series; which earlier prequel is set before it?
The Kill Order
The Kill Order shows the first outbreak of the virus through mostly new characters. It is set thirteen years before Thomas arrives in the Glade.
Q 27In The Fever Code, what is Thomas's secret reason for asking to be sent into the Maze?
To free his friends
To free his friends was the hidden aim. Thomas had stopped believing a cure was possible, so Teresa pitched the plan to Dr. Paige without revealing their true motive.
Q 28WICKED is an acronym in The Fever Code; what does its final letter, D, stand for?
Department
Department completes the name World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department. The film adaptations trimmed the acronym to WCKD.
Q 29In The Fever Code's prologue, what happens to Newt's parents when WICKED comes for his sister?
They are shot dead
They are shot dead after refusing to hand over their immune daughter. Newt's father fires first, and a WICKED agent kills both parents in front of the children.
Q 30After months apart in The Fever Code, how does Teresa let the friends meet in secret again?
Hacking the security system
Hacking the security system let Teresa feed looped footage to the cameras. The midnight meetings could then resume unseen.