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

2. What falls from Umberto's plane?
(a) Triffid plants.
(b) Triffid seeds.
(c) Pink triffid oil.
(d) Triffid instructions.

3. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Murder his wife.
(b) Leave town.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Murder his children.

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

5. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are full of germs.
(b) They are carnivores.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some nations eject into space?

2. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?

3. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?

4. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?

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

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