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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 time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

2. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to crack the skull.
(b) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(c) They are trying to deafen people.
(d) They are trying to blind people.

3. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Made him happy.
(b) Made him wealthy.
(c) Made him popular.
(d) Saved his life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

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

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

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

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