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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. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) By television.
(b) By internet postings.
(c) By radio.
(d) He watches it.

2. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?
(a) He is stung by a triffid.
(b) He is attacked by a blind man.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is hit by a car.

3. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were spontaneously generated.
(b) They were planted by a radical group.
(c) They were planted by gardeners.
(d) They were magical.

4. 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.

5. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?
(a) He can find a new profession.
(b) He can find a new wife.
(c) He is no longer a cog, but his own master.
(d) He is no longer employed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?

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

3. Where does Bill take the young woman?

4. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?

5. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

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