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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?
(a) Take care of the blind.
(b) Take over the triffids.
(c) Rebuild the world.
(d) Capture the blind.

2. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A police station.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A Laundromat.
(d) A pub.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?
(a) She can justify it because the choice gives them babies.
(b) She can justify it because the choice gives them money.
(c) She can justify it because the choice gives them purpose.
(d) She can justify it because the choice gives them survival.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some nations eject into space?

2. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?

3. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?

4. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?

5. What does the narrator note occurred on May 7th?

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