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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. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) She missed her family.
(b) She was being followed.
(c) She needed the money.
(d) People she didn't like began harassing her.

2. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A pub.
(c) A police station.
(d) A Laundromat.

3. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?
(a) Belief is always right.
(b) Belief can not be right or wrong, but only right for a specific population.
(c) Belief is either right, or wrong.
(d) Belief can be both right and wrong.

4. What falls from Umberto's plane?
(a) Triffid instructions.
(b) Triffid seeds.
(c) Triffid plants.
(d) Pink triffid oil.

5. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?
(a) He finds an animal and kills it for food.
(b) He eats food from his own garden.
(c) He pays someone to make him a sandwich.
(d) He enters a shop that has already been broken into.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?

3. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?

4. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

5. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

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