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

2. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A southern suburb of London.
(b) A southern suburb of Dublin.
(c) A northern suburb of Chicago.
(d) A northern suburb of Venice.

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

4. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?
(a) She is tied to him, with her hands also tied.
(b) She is tied to him, with her feet bound.
(c) She is tied to a wall, with her feet bound.
(d) She is tied to a wall, with her hands also tied.

5. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) Out into the world.
(b) Into a hospital.
(c) Into a bar.
(d) To his parents' house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?

3. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?

4. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?

5. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?

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