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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Elspeth Cary?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A reporter.

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

4. What is the function of the Colonel?
(a) He is in charge of the kitchen.
(b) He admits individuals into the sighted colony.
(c) He admits individuals into the blind colony.
(d) He is in charge of assigning duties.

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

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

7. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Thursday.

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

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

10. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?
(a) To collect food and supplies.
(b) To collect medical supplies.
(c) To collect transportation.
(d) To collect money.

11. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?
(a) She is saying goodbye to frivolity.
(b) She always dresses in such a manner.
(c) She is trying to reclaim her beauty.
(d) She is trying to entice Bill.

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

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

14. What does the Colonel suggest the colony does immediately?
(a) Leave London.
(b) Begin to procreate.
(c) Destroy the triffids.
(d) Set fire to London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?

2. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?

3. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?

4. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?

5. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?

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