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

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

3. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) To his parents' house.
(b) Out into the world.
(c) Into a hospital.
(d) Into a bar.

4. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?
(a) Being caught again.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being raped.
(d) Loneliness.

5. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are mating.
(b) They are talking.
(c) They are counting.
(d) They are calling others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What alerted Josella to the crisis?

2. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?

3. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?

4. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

5. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?

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