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

2. 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 staples from his legs.
(c) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(d) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.

3. Where do Bill and Josella agree the light in the night came from?
(a) A plane.
(b) A farmhouse.
(c) A forest.
(d) A university tower.

4. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?
(a) Take over the triffids.
(b) Capture the blind.
(c) Take care of the blind.
(d) Rebuild the world.

5. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He has one in his home.
(b) He grows them.
(c) We works with them.
(d) He developed them.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

4. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?

5. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?

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