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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bill go in the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) He goes to the country.
(b) He goes to the United States.
(c) He goes to London.
(d) He goes to Ireland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Josella's opinion of the future?
(a) It is deadly.
(b) They will not like it much.
(c) It is uncertain.
(d) It is full of promise.

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

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

11. 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.

12. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He is relieved.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He is elated.

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

14. What book does Josella admit she wrote?
(a) Sex is Sexy.
(b) Sex is Sin.
(c) Sex is My Adventure.
(d) Sex is Fun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?

2. Where does Josella suggest they go in the morning?

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

4. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

5. Where does Bill take the young woman?

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