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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Walter.
(b) The landlord of the pub.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Joelle.

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

5. At University Tower, where does the writing say the community has gone?
(a) Exmoor.
(b) Devizes.
(c) Tynsham.
(d) Westminster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill find in the hallway as he runs?

2. What wakes Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight?

3. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?

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

5. What does Bill learn Coker did at the University?

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