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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 alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her father was blind.
(b) Her mother was blind.
(c) Her child was blind.
(d) Her husband was blind.

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

3. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is elated.
(b) He is relieved.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He is depressed.

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

5. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?
(a) Triffid plants.
(b) Pink triffid oil.
(c) Triffid instructions.
(d) Triffid seeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator follow the event?

2. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

3. What did Bill's father do for a living?

4. Where does Bill go in the beginning of Chapter Three?

5. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?

(see the answer key)

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