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

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

3. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He ate one accidentally.
(b) He grew one for a science project.
(c) He was stung by one.
(d) He killed one.

4. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) No one had contact with one another.
(b) Everyone believed the same things, politically.
(c) Everyone lived happily together.
(d) No one believed their chances of winning were good.

5. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) By radio.
(b) By internet postings.
(c) He watches it.
(d) By television.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?

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

4. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

5. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?

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