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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are animals.
(b) They are full of germs.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are carnivores.

5. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?
(a) That people have been fighting one another.
(b) That people have been stealing supplies.
(c) That people have been raping women.
(d) That people have been killing others.

6. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?
(a) The roads were impassable.
(b) She ran out of gas.
(c) Her tire was flat.
(d) Her brakes failed.

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

8. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?
(a) He enters a shop that has already been broken into.
(b) He finds an animal and kills it for food.
(c) He eats food from his own garden.
(d) He pays someone to make him a sandwich.

9. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?
(a) He offers part of the dead animal to others.
(b) He offers to help the person who makes his food.
(c) He pays for his food.
(d) He offers his garden food to others.

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

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

12. What do Bill and Josella see in the night that chooses for them where to go in the morning?
(a) A light from a fire in the distance.
(b) The light of a plane in the distance.
(c) A bright searchlight in the distance.
(d) Car lights in the distance.

13. What falls from Umberto's plane?
(a) Triffid instructions.
(b) Triffid plants.
(c) Pink triffid oil.
(d) Triffid seeds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?

2. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

3. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?

4. What does the Colonel suggest the colony does immediately?

5. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?

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