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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Saved his life.
(b) Made him wealthy.
(c) Made him popular.
(d) Made him happy.

3. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He grows them.
(b) He has one in his home.
(c) He developed them.
(d) We works with them.

4. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(b) They are trying to blind people.
(c) They are trying to deafen people.
(d) They are trying to crack the skull.

5. Where did Bill first see a triffid?
(a) In a zoo.
(b) In a factory.
(c) In a botanical garden.
(d) In his garden as a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bill's father do for a living?

2. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?

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

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

5. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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