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

2. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?
(a) A woman.
(b) A dog.
(c) A cat.
(d) A child.

3. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(b) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(c) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(d) He thinks they are aliens.

4. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) A woman playing piano and singing.
(b) The sounds of traffic.
(c) A man playing piano and singing.
(d) The sounds of children playing.

5. What did Bill's father do for a living?
(a) He worked for the Revenue Department.
(b) He worked for a local zoo.
(c) He worked for a company producing triffids.
(d) He worked for a law firm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?

2. How does the narrator follow the event?

3. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

4. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?

5. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?

(see the answer key)

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