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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15, 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill discover has happened at Tynsham?
(a) The plague has hit.
(b) The people have fled.
(c) The people have rioted.
(d) The people have been killed by triffids.

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

3. What has happened in Brighton?
(a) It has burned to the ground.
(b) It has been overgrown.
(c) It has been abandoned.
(d) It has been taken over by hostiles.

4. What does Alf admit he thinks about whether people are coming to rescue them?
(a) He believes someone has already come.
(b) He believes no rescue is required.
(c) He believes someone will come.
(d) He believes no one is coming.

5. Who does Ivan note has joined the colony?
(a) Coker.
(b) Jack.
(c) Miss Durrant.
(d) Amber.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill learn Coker did at the University?

3. What can the child do that others cannot?

4. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

5. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?

(see the answer key)

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