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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 does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Made him popular.
(b) Saved his life.
(c) Made him happy.
(d) Made him wealthy.

2. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is lonely.
(b) He is depressed.
(c) He is elated.
(d) He is relieved.

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

4. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) He sees they are slowly losing control.
(b) He is unable to see.
(c) He is cruel.
(d) He sees they do not need assistance.

5. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?
(a) A woman.
(b) A dog.
(c) A child.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Josella and Bill go to Clerkenwell once they leave Josella's home?

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

3. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?

4. Who is Elspeth Cary?

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

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