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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Josella and Bill go to Clerkenwell once they leave Josella's home?
(a) For triffid guns.
(b) To find people.
(c) For water.
(d) For food.

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

3. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He developed them.
(b) He has one in his home.
(c) We works with them.
(d) He grows them.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?
(a) Josella's home.
(b) A hotel room.
(c) A hovel.
(d) An extravagant apartment.

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

10. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Julian's.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) St. Merryn's.
(d) St. Mary's.

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

12. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Being killed.
(c) Being caught again.
(d) Being raped.

13. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was in the hospital.
(b) She was at a party.
(c) She was asleep.
(d) She was at work.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?

4. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?

5. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?

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