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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?
(a) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.
(b) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(c) Doctors will remove staples from his legs.
(d) Doctors will remove bandages from his knee.

2. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?
(a) Her father has gone mad.
(b) Triffids have attacked and killed everyone.
(c) The blind have attacked and killed everyone.
(d) Sighted burglars have attacked and killed everyone.

3. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?
(a) A man who was blind before the comet.
(b) A doctor.
(c) Josella.
(d) Coker.

4. What do some nations eject into space?
(a) Unwanted people.
(b) Nuclear missiles.
(c) Satellites with atomic heads.
(d) Garbage.

5. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He is relieved.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He is elated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?

2. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

3. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

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

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