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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?
(a) The plant talked.
(b) The plant died.
(c) The plant walked.
(d) The plant grew to 18 feet.

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

3. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(b) He watches a news cast on television.
(c) A nurse explains it to him.
(d) He hears it on the radio.

4. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?
(a) He is attacked by a blind man.
(b) He is hit by a car.
(c) He is stung by a triffid.
(d) He is shot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

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

3. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

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

5. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Bill decides to go to London at the beginning of Chapter Three?

2. Describe the argument between the sighted leader of the blind at the gates of University Tower and the sighted leaders of the sighted colony at the university.

3. What is revealed about the triffids in Chapter Four, and how is this revealed in the book?

4. Explain the irony of the blind man Bill finds in Chapter Three, who was blind before the comet.

5. What is revealed about the new use for sighted children and blind women in Chapter Three?

6. Do you think the narrator is right to leave the blind group in the lobby of the hospital, knowing they cannot see to get out?

7. What surprises Josella about her actions when she was captive?

8. Give a brief explanation of the various speculations pertaining to the coming of the triffids.

9. Explain the difference between Josella's view of triffids and Bill's. Why are they do drastically different?

10. Following the witness of a couple committing suicide, Bill admits to himself that he must 'grow a hide'. Explain his meaning.

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