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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some nations eject into space?
(a) Unwanted people.
(b) Satellites with atomic heads.
(c) Garbage.
(d) Nuclear missiles.

2. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?
(a) She is tied to him, with her feet bound.
(b) She is tied to him, with her hands also tied.
(c) She is tied to a wall, with her feet bound.
(d) She is tied to a wall, with her hands also tied.

3. What can the child do that others cannot?
(a) She can hear.
(b) She can smell.
(c) She can see.
(d) She can run.

4. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?
(a) He is attacked by a blind man.
(b) He is hit by a car.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is stung by a triffid.

5. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) He sees they are slowly losing control.
(b) He is cruel.
(c) He is unable to see.
(d) He sees they do not need assistance.

6. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

7. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?
(a) An extravagant apartment.
(b) A hovel.
(c) Josella's home.
(d) A hotel room.

8. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?
(a) Because they still work for the community.
(b) Because they can be impregnated to bear sighted children.
(c) Because they can be used as work slaves.
(d) Because they can be used as sex slaves.

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

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

11. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It dies.
(b) It begins to 'talk'.
(c) It attacks the car.
(d) It kills Josella.

12. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) She missed her family.
(b) She needed the money.
(c) People she didn't like began harassing her.
(d) She was being followed.

13. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) Out into the world.
(b) Into a bar.
(c) To his parents' house.
(d) Into a hospital.

14. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?
(a) He sits quietly.
(b) He cries.
(c) He yells for silence.
(d) He screams.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

3. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?

4. Who is the young woman on the committee at the meeting?

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

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