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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) We works with them.
(b) He developed them.
(c) He grows them.
(d) He has one in his home.

5. What did Bill's father do for a living?
(a) He worked for a local zoo.
(b) He worked for the Revenue Department.
(c) He worked for a company producing triffids.
(d) He worked for a law firm.

6. Where do Bill and Josella agree the light in the night came from?
(a) A plane.
(b) A farmhouse.
(c) A university tower.
(d) A forest.

7. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He is taken captive.
(c) He is laughed at.
(d) He is hit.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Murder his wife.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Murder his children.

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

15. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?
(a) The plant died.
(b) The plant walked.
(c) The plant talked.
(d) The plant grew to 18 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?

2. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?

3. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

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

5. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?

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