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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 time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

2. Where did Bill first see a triffid?
(a) In a zoo.
(b) In a botanical garden.
(c) In a factory.
(d) In his garden as a child.

3. What saved Joyce's life?
(a) Josella.
(b) Dennis and Mary's ability to care for her.
(c) A local doctor.
(d) An antidote.

4. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant wants?
(a) A way out.
(b) A child.
(c) A lover.
(d) Help.

5. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?
(a) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(b) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.
(c) Doctors will remove bandages from his knee.
(d) Doctors will remove staples from his legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Bill arrived at the beginning of Chapter Fourteen?

2. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?

3. What does Bill discover has happened at Tynsham?

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

5. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?

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