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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 is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Murder his children.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Murder his wife.

2. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were planted by a radical group.
(b) They were spontaneously generated.
(c) They were magical.
(d) They were planted by gardeners.

3. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) The sounds of traffic.
(b) A woman playing piano and singing.
(c) The sounds of children playing.
(d) A man playing piano and singing.

4. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He ate one accidentally.
(b) He killed one.
(c) He grew one for a science project.
(d) He was stung by one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?

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

3. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?

4. What does Bill reveal about radio broadcasts?

5. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

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