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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. Who is Elspeth Cary?
(a) A reporter.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A lawyer.

2. What does Bill point out to Josella after the argument?
(a) That the sighted are wrong to ignore the blind.
(b) That they cannot hope to save the blind.
(c) That they cannot hope to save the sighted.
(d) That they must choose between saving the sighted, and saving the blind.

3. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That he doesn't want to work with triffids anymore.
(b) That he wants to own a triffid.
(c) That he wants to marry and have children.
(d) That he doesn't want to live in London anymore.

4. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?
(a) A child.
(b) A woman.
(c) A cat.
(d) A dog.

5. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) She was being followed.
(b) She needed the money.
(c) She missed her family.
(d) People she didn't like began harassing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dennis keep from becoming lost?

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

3. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?

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

5. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?

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