View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It dies.
(b) It begins to 'talk'.
(c) It attacks the car.
(d) It kills Josella.

2. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(b) They are trying to blind people.
(c) They are trying to crack the skull.
(d) They are trying to deafen people.

3. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?
(a) He cannot find a shop.
(b) He does not want to break the law.
(c) He does not have money.
(d) He cannot find food.

4. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?
(a) He yells for silence.
(b) He sits quietly.
(c) He cries.
(d) He screams.

5. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He killed one.
(b) He was stung by one.
(c) He grew one for a science project.
(d) He ate one accidentally.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 299 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample