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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) People she didn't like began harassing her.
(b) She was being followed.
(c) She needed the money.
(d) She missed her family.

2. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Meat.
(d) Cheese.

3. Who is the young woman on the committee at the meeting?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A sociologist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A scientist.

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

5. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?
(a) He offers part of the dead animal to others.
(b) He pays for his food.
(c) He offers to help the person who makes his food.
(d) He offers his garden food to others.

6. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?
(a) Her tire was flat.
(b) She ran out of gas.
(c) Her brakes failed.
(d) The roads were impassable.

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

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

9. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?
(a) Lack of water.
(b) Lack of sunlight.
(c) Lack of food.
(d) Lack of oxygen.

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

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

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

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

14. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It begins to 'talk'.
(b) It kills Josella.
(c) It attacks the car.
(d) It dies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?

2. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?

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

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

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

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