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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 does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(b) Everyone believed the same things, politically.
(c) Everyone lived happily together.
(d) No one had contact with one another.

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

3. What alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her mother was blind.
(b) Her husband was blind.
(c) Her child was blind.
(d) Her father was blind.

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

5. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Meat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?

3. What did Bill's father do for a living?

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

5. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?

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