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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. Why can Joyce not be moved?
(a) She is weak from triffid poison.
(b) She is weak from illness.
(c) She is weak from hunger.
(d) She is weak from pregnancy.

2. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Made him popular.
(b) Made him wealthy.
(c) Saved his life.
(d) Made him happy.

3. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(b) They are trying to crack the skull.
(c) They are trying to blind people.
(d) They are trying to deafen people.

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

5. Who does the young woman in Beaminster believe is coming to save them?
(a) The Irish.
(b) No one.
(c) The Americans.
(d) The Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?

2. What alerted Josella to the crisis?

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

4. How does Bill try to signal Josella?

5. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?

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