The Day of the Triffids Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Day of the Triffids Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Bill and Josella agree the light in the night came from?
(a) A forest.
(b) A plane.
(c) A farmhouse.
(d) A university tower.

2. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is laughed at.
(b) He is taken captive.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is hit.

3. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That he doesn't want to live in London anymore.
(b) That he doesn't want to work with triffids anymore.
(c) That he wants to marry and have children.
(d) That he wants to own a triffid.

4. Why do Josella and Bill go to Clerkenwell once they leave Josella's home?
(a) To find people.
(b) For water.
(c) For triffid guns.
(d) For food.

5. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?
(a) He pays for his food.
(b) He offers to help the person who makes his food.
(c) He offers part of the dead animal to others.
(d) He offers his garden food to others.

6. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?
(a) Belief is always right.
(b) Belief can be both right and wrong.
(c) Belief can not be right or wrong, but only right for a specific population.
(d) Belief is either right, or wrong.

7. What is the function of the Colonel?
(a) He admits individuals into the blind colony.
(b) He admits individuals into the sighted colony.
(c) He is in charge of the kitchen.
(d) He is in charge of assigning duties.

8. 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 purpose.
(b) She can justify it because the choice gives them survival.
(c) She can justify it because the choice gives them money.
(d) She can justify it because the choice gives them babies.

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

10. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were magical.
(b) They were planted by a radical group.
(c) They were spontaneously generated.
(d) They were planted by gardeners.

11. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) To Ireland.
(b) To China.
(c) Back to London.
(d) To the United States.

12. What does Bill point out to Josella after the argument?
(a) That they cannot hope to save the sighted.
(b) That the sighted are wrong to ignore the blind.
(c) That they must choose between saving the sighted, and saving the blind.
(d) That they cannot hope to save the blind.

13. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) He sees they do not need assistance.
(b) He is unable to see.
(c) He is cruel.
(d) He sees they are slowly losing control.

14. What book does Josella admit she wrote?
(a) Sex is Sexy.
(b) Sex is My Adventure.
(c) Sex is Sin.
(d) Sex is Fun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

2. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?

3. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

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

5. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?

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