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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?
(a) Pink triffid oil.
(b) Triffid instructions.
(c) Triffid plants.
(d) Triffid seeds.

5. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?
(a) Belief is either right, or wrong.
(b) Belief can not be right or wrong, but only right for a specific population.
(c) Belief can be both right and wrong.
(d) Belief is always right.

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

7. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A southern suburb of London.
(b) A northern suburb of Venice.
(c) A southern suburb of Dublin.
(d) A northern suburb of Chicago.

8. What is the young woman's name?
(a) Josella Russell.
(b) Josella Jones.
(c) Josella Smith.
(d) Josella Playton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

2. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?

3. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?

4. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?

5. What do some nations eject into space?

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