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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?
(a) Sighted burglars have attacked and killed everyone.
(b) Triffids have attacked and killed everyone.
(c) Her father has gone mad.
(d) The blind have attacked and killed everyone.

2. Why can Mary not be moved?
(a) She is disabled.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is a baby.

3. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Coker.
(c) A man who was blind before the comet.
(d) Josella.

4. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(b) He hears it on the radio.
(c) He watches a news cast on television.
(d) A nurse explains it to him.

5. What is the function of the Colonel?
(a) He admits individuals into the sighted colony.
(b) He is in charge of assigning duties.
(c) He is in charge of the kitchen.
(d) He admits individuals into the blind colony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?

2. Why does Coker argue that the young woman mending in the kitchen is at fault?

3. Who does Bill not find at Tynsham?

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

5. What can the child do that others cannot?

(see the answer key)

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