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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill load up on at the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Food.
(c) Women.
(d) Water.

2. Where does Josella suggest they go in the morning?
(a) Exmoor.
(b) Sussex Downs.
(c) Lake District.
(d) Dartmoor.

3. What does the redheaded leader of the other group do when he sights Bill?
(a) He shoots at them.
(b) He follows them to their hotel.
(c) He says hello.
(d) He swears at them.

4. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?
(a) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(b) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.
(c) Doctors will remove bandages from his knee.
(d) Doctors will remove staples from his legs.

5. Why do Josella and Bill go to Clerkenwell once they leave Josella's home?
(a) For water.
(b) For food.
(c) To find people.
(d) For triffid guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?

2. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

3. Who organizes Tynsham?

4. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

5. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?

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