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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. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?
(a) He wanted him to become a banker.
(b) He wanted him to become an accountant.
(c) He wanted him to become a doctor.
(d) He wanted him to become a lawyer.

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 brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?
(a) A child's laugh.
(b) A dog's bark.
(c) A woman's scream.
(d) A man's voice.

4. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are mating.
(b) They are counting.
(c) They are talking.
(d) They are calling others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?

2. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

3. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?

4. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

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

(see the answer key)

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