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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?
(a) A woman's scream.
(b) A man's voice.
(c) A child's laugh.
(d) A dog's bark.

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

3. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?
(a) Lack of water.
(b) Lack of sunlight.
(c) Lack of food.
(d) Lack of oxygen.

4. What is the young woman's name?
(a) Josella Playton.
(b) Josella Russell.
(c) Josella Smith.
(d) Josella Jones.

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

2. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?

3. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?

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

5. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?

(see the answer key)

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