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

2. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) He is cruel.
(b) He is unable to see.
(c) He sees they are slowly losing control.
(d) He sees they do not need assistance.

3. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) He watches it.
(b) By radio.
(c) By internet postings.
(d) By television.

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

5. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) To China.
(b) Back to London.
(c) To Ireland.
(d) To the United States.

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

7. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(b) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(c) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(d) He thinks they are aliens.

8. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?
(a) Coker.
(b) Josella.
(c) A man who was blind before the comet.
(d) A doctor.

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

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

11. What does Bill reveal about radio broadcasts?
(a) They are jumbled.
(b) Those in other countries are still functioning.
(c) There are none.
(d) They are normal.

12. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?
(a) Because they can be used as work slaves.
(b) Because they can be impregnated to bear sighted children.
(c) Because they still work for the community.
(d) Because they can be used as sex slaves.

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

14. 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.

15. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) Everyone lived happily together.
(b) No one had contact with one another.
(c) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(d) Everyone believed the same things, politically.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

2. Why did Josella move home following her success?

3. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

4. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

5. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?

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