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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A southern suburb of Dublin.
(b) A northern suburb of Venice.
(c) A northern suburb of Chicago.
(d) A southern suburb of London.

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

3. What was the result of this event?
(a) Bright green lights in the sky.
(b) Darkness.
(c) An explosion.
(d) A lack of moonlight.

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

5. Where did Bill first see a triffid?
(a) In a factory.
(b) In a zoo.
(c) In a botanical garden.
(d) In his garden as a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?

2. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?

3. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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