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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?
(a) Decadence, immorality, and lack of faith.
(b) Thanklessness and selfishness.
(c) Communism.
(d) Laziness and stubbornness.

2. Where does Miss Durrant indicate Beadley's party has gone?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Beaminster.
(c) London.
(d) Exmoor.

3. What does Coker explain is Bill's new job?
(a) He is to be an inside man at the colony.
(b) He is to be the muscle for his armed group.
(c) He is to work on a farm to produce more food.
(d) He is to be the eyes for a group of blind individuals.

4. Who does Bill not find at Tynsham?
(a) Josella.
(b) Jack.
(c) Willard.
(d) Coker.

5. What does Coker point out are the most dangerous things?
(a) Triffids.
(b) Good intentions.
(c) Bad intentions.
(d) Satellites.

6. Why can't Bill simply take Josella away from the farm?
(a) She refuses to leave.
(b) They have no transportation.
(c) It is too dangerous.
(d) There are others who depend on her.

7. Where are Susan's parents?
(a) They have disappeared.
(b) They are inside the house.
(c) They are dead.
(d) They are in the hospital.

8. How many individuals are in Bill's group?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty seven.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifty two.

9. What does Bill discover has happened at Tynsham?
(a) The people have fled.
(b) The people have been killed by triffids.
(c) The people have rioted.
(d) The plague has hit.

10. Why can Mary not be moved?
(a) She is sick.
(b) She is a baby.
(c) She is disabled.
(d) She is pregnant.

11. What does Alf admit he thinks about whether people are coming to rescue them?
(a) He believes no rescue is required.
(b) He believes someone has already come.
(c) He believes someone will come.
(d) He believes no one is coming.

12. What does Bill learn on the fifth day of his slavery that worries him?
(a) Half the group has died.
(b) Half the group has been lost.
(c) There is despair spreading through the group.
(d) There is a sickness spreading through the group.

13. What does Bill note about the sheep and cattle?
(a) They are blind.
(b) They are wandering.
(c) They are sighted.
(d) They are restless.

14. Why does Coker argue that the young woman mending in the kitchen is at fault?
(a) She started an engine wrong.
(b) She is lazy.
(c) She has no direction.
(d) She does not try to use her brains.

15. What wakes Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) A bell.
(b) A phone.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) Screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Joan and Ted?

2. What saved Joyce's life?

3. Where does Bill find Josella's district to be?

4. What do Coker and Bill find at Tynsham?

5. What does the young blind woman offer Bill at the end of Chapter Eight?

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