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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. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(b) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(c) He thinks they are aliens.
(d) He thinks they spontaneously generated.

2. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are simple food for triffids.
(b) That the blind are superior to a triffid.
(c) That the blind are like the triffids.
(d) That the blind are not superior any longer.

3. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) By radio.
(b) By internet postings.
(c) He watches it.
(d) By television.

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was at work.
(b) She was asleep.
(c) She was at a party.
(d) She was in the hospital.

5. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?
(a) She is trying to entice Bill.
(b) She is trying to reclaim her beauty.
(c) She always dresses in such a manner.
(d) She is saying goodbye to frivolity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

2. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

3. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

4. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?

5. What is the function of the Colonel?

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