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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls from Umberto's plane?
(a) Triffid seeds.
(b) Triffid instructions.
(c) Triffid plants.
(d) Pink triffid oil.

2. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He ate one accidentally.
(b) He grew one for a science project.
(c) He was stung by one.
(d) He killed one.

3. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A Laundromat.
(b) A pub.
(c) A police station.
(d) A grocery store.

4. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) By radio.
(b) By internet postings.
(c) By television.
(d) He watches it.

5. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are mating.
(b) They are talking.
(c) They are calling others.
(d) They are counting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?

2. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?

3. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?

4. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?

5. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

(see the answer key)

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