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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He was stung by one.
(b) He ate one accidentally.
(c) He killed one.
(d) He grew one for a science project.

3. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He watches a news cast on television.
(b) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(c) He hears it on the radio.
(d) A nurse explains it to him.

4. Where does Bill take the young woman?
(a) To a pub.
(b) To her car.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To his apartment.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What falls from Umberto's plane?

4. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?

5. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?

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