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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. How does Bill suggest they begin to search for Josella in the Downs?
(a) Look for people.
(b) Look for smoke.
(c) Look for triffids.
(d) Look for light.

2. Where does the man at the end of Chapter Eleven shoot?
(a) Into Coker's truck.
(b) Over Bill's head.
(c) Over Coker's head.
(d) Into Bill's truck.

3. What alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her mother was blind.
(b) Her father was blind.
(c) Her child was blind.
(d) Her husband was blind.

4. What happened to Susan's friend?
(a) He starved to death.
(b) He fell into a well.
(c) He was killed by a triffid.
(d) He died of the plague.

5. What are the flame throwers used for?
(a) Starting fires.
(b) Killing triffids.
(c) Clearing land.
(d) Killing animals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?

3. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?

4. Why can't Bill simply take Josella away from the farm?

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

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