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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 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 like the triffids.
(c) That the blind are not superior any longer.
(d) That the blind are superior to a triffid.

2. How does Bill try to signal Josella?
(a) With a smoke signal.
(b) With a fire.
(c) With a large searchlight.
(d) With his headlights.

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

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

5. What does Bill reveal about radio broadcasts?
(a) They are jumbled.
(b) Those in other countries are still functioning.
(c) There are none.
(d) They are normal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant will do?

2. Who does Bill find at the cottage?

3. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?

4. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?

5. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?

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