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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?
(a) It could have been expanded.
(b) It could have been saved.
(c) It could have exploded.
(d) It could have been destroyed.

2. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?
(a) Lack of oxygen.
(b) Lack of sunlight.
(c) Lack of water.
(d) Lack of food.

3. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?
(a) A dog.
(b) A woman.
(c) A cat.
(d) A child.

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was in the hospital.
(b) She was at work.
(c) She was at a party.
(d) She was asleep.

5. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) A man playing piano and singing.
(b) The sounds of children playing.
(c) A woman playing piano and singing.
(d) The sounds of traffic.

6. What do Bill and Josella see at the gates of the University Tower?
(a) An argument between two blind men.
(b) An argument between a sighted man and a woman.
(c) An argument between two women.
(d) An argument between the sighted and the blind.

7. Where does Josella suggest they go in the morning?
(a) Lake District.
(b) Sussex Downs.
(c) Exmoor.
(d) Dartmoor.

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

9. What is the function of the Colonel?
(a) He admits individuals into the sighted colony.
(b) He is in charge of the kitchen.
(c) He is in charge of assigning duties.
(d) He admits individuals into the blind colony.

10. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?
(a) A dog.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Meat.
(d) Red paint.

11. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?
(a) Josella.
(b) Coker.
(c) A man who was blind before the comet.
(d) A doctor.

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

13. What book does Josella admit she wrote?
(a) Sex is Sin.
(b) Sex is My Adventure.
(c) Sex is Fun.
(d) Sex is Sexy.

14. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(b) He thinks they are aliens.
(c) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(d) He thinks they were a freak of nature.

15. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?
(a) Being raped.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Being caught again.
(d) Being killed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

3. What does Bill point out to Josella after the argument?

4. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?

5. What is the young woman's name?

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