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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A southern suburb of London.
(b) A northern suburb of Chicago.
(c) A southern suburb of Dublin.
(d) A northern suburb of Venice.

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

3. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?
(a) He is no longer employed.
(b) He can find a new wife.
(c) He can find a new profession.
(d) He is no longer a cog, but his own master.

4. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are not superior any longer.
(b) That the blind are like the triffids.
(c) That the blind are simple food for triffids.
(d) That the blind are superior to a triffid.

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

6. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were magical.
(b) They were planted by a radical group.
(c) They were spontaneously generated.
(d) They were planted by gardeners.

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

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

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

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

12. 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) A light from a fire in the distance.
(c) A bright searchlight in the distance.
(d) Car lights in the distance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beadley think of Bill in relation to triffids?

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

4. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?

5. Where do Bill and Josella agree the light in the night came from?

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