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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 alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her mother was blind.
(b) Her husband was blind.
(c) Her father was blind.
(d) Her child was blind.

2. What was the result of this event?
(a) A lack of moonlight.
(b) Bright green lights in the sky.
(c) Darkness.
(d) An explosion.

3. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are animals.
(b) They are carnivores.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are full of germs.

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

5. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Murder his wife.
(b) Leave town.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Murder his children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

2. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

3. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

4. What falls from Umberto's plane?

5. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?

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