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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He ate one accidentally.
(b) He was stung by one.
(c) He grew one for a science project.
(d) He killed one.

2. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(b) They are trying to crack the skull.
(c) They are trying to deafen people.
(d) They are trying to blind people.

3. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?
(a) Sighted burglars have attacked and killed everyone.
(b) Triffids have attacked and killed everyone.
(c) Her father has gone mad.
(d) The blind have attacked and killed everyone.

4. Where does Bill take the young woman?
(a) To his apartment.
(b) To her car.
(c) To a pub.
(d) To the hospital.

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

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

7. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are talking.
(b) They are counting.
(c) They are mating.
(d) They are calling others.

8. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Julian's.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) St. Merryn's.

9. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Walter.
(c) The landlord of the pub.
(d) Joelle.

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

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

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

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

14. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?
(a) He wanted him to become a banker.
(b) He wanted him to become an accountant.
(c) He wanted him to become a doctor.
(d) He wanted him to become a lawyer.

15. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?

2. What is the young woman's name?

3. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

4. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?

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

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