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

2. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It attacks the car.
(b) It kills Josella.
(c) It dies.
(d) It begins to 'talk'.

3. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Merryn's.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Julian's.
(d) St. Louis.

4. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He developed them.
(b) He grows them.
(c) He has one in his home.
(d) We works with them.

5. What do Bill and Josella see at the gates of the University Tower?
(a) An argument between two women.
(b) An argument between the sighted and the blind.
(c) An argument between a sighted man and a woman.
(d) An argument between two blind men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?

2. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?

3. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?

4. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?

5. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?

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