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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. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) A nurse explains it to him.
(b) He hears it on the radio.
(c) He watches a news cast on television.
(d) He finds blind persons in a ward.

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

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

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

5. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Joelle.
(c) Walter.
(d) The landlord of the pub.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator follow the event?

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