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

2. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He watches a news cast on television.
(b) He hears it on the radio.
(c) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(d) A nurse explains it to him.

3. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are like the triffids.
(b) That the blind are superior to a triffid.
(c) That the blind are simple food for triffids.
(d) That the blind are not superior any longer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?

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

3. What can the child do that others cannot?

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

5. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?

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