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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 can the child do that others cannot?
(a) She can smell.
(b) She can run.
(c) She can hear.
(d) She can see.

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

3. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?
(a) A hotel room.
(b) Josella's home.
(c) A hovel.
(d) An extravagant apartment.

4. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It kills Josella.
(b) It attacks the car.
(c) It begins to 'talk'.
(d) It dies.

5. What is the function of the Colonel?
(a) He admits individuals into the blind colony.
(b) He is in charge of the kitchen.
(c) He admits individuals into the sighted colony.
(d) He is in charge of assigning duties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

2. What do Bill and Josella see in the night that chooses for them where to go in the morning?

3. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?

4. What does Bill reveal about radio broadcasts?

5. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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