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

2. 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.

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

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

5. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(b) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(c) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(d) He thinks they are aliens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator note occurred on May 7th?

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

3. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?

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

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

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