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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 did Bill's father do for a living?
(a) He worked for a company producing triffids.
(b) He worked for the Revenue Department.
(c) He worked for a local zoo.
(d) He worked for a law firm.

2. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Walter.
(b) A doctor.
(c) Joelle.
(d) The landlord of the pub.

3. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Three.

4. What does Bill point out to Josella after the argument?
(a) That they must choose between saving the sighted, and saving the blind.
(b) That they cannot hope to save the blind.
(c) That they cannot hope to save the sighted.
(d) That the sighted are wrong to ignore the blind.

5. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?
(a) Red paint.
(b) A dog.
(c) Meat.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beadley think of Bill in relation to triffids?

3. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?

4. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?

5. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?

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