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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(b) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(c) He thinks they are aliens.
(d) He thinks they were biologically developed.

2. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?
(a) She can justify it because the choice gives them babies.
(b) She can justify it because the choice gives them money.
(c) She can justify it because the choice gives them purpose.
(d) She can justify it because the choice gives them survival.

3. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?
(a) He enters a shop that has already been broken into.
(b) He pays someone to make him a sandwich.
(c) He eats food from his own garden.
(d) He finds an animal and kills it for food.

4. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Meat.
(d) Oranges.

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 counting.
(c) They are calling others.
(d) They are talking.

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

7. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?
(a) He can find a new wife.
(b) He is no longer employed.
(c) He is no longer a cog, but his own master.
(d) He can find a new profession.

8. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Red paint.
(c) A dog.
(d) Meat.

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

10. What is Josella's opinion of the future?
(a) It is full of promise.
(b) They will not like it much.
(c) It is deadly.
(d) It is uncertain.

11. What is the young woman's name?
(a) Josella Russell.
(b) Josella Smith.
(c) Josella Playton.
(d) Josella Jones.

12. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?
(a) To collect money.
(b) To collect transportation.
(c) To collect food and supplies.
(d) To collect medical supplies.

13. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?
(a) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(b) Doctors will remove staples from his legs.
(c) Doctors will remove bandages from his knee.
(d) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.

14. What alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her mother was blind.
(b) Her child was blind.
(c) Her husband was blind.
(d) Her father was blind.

15. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) Everyone lived happily together.
(b) No one had contact with one another.
(c) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(d) Everyone believed the same things, politically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?

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

3. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?

4. Who is Elspeth Cary?

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

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