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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Josella's opinion of the future?
(a) It is full of promise.
(b) They will not like it much.
(c) It is deadly.
(d) It is uncertain.

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

4. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?
(a) Because they can be used as work slaves.
(b) Because they still work for the community.
(c) Because they can be impregnated to bear sighted children.
(d) Because they can be used as sex slaves.

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

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

7. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) No one had contact with one another.
(b) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(c) Everyone believed the same things, politically.
(d) Everyone lived happily together.

8. 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 purpose.
(b) She can justify it because the choice gives them babies.
(c) She can justify it because the choice gives them survival.
(d) She can justify it because the choice gives them money.

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

10. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He is elated.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He is relieved.

11. What was the result of this event?
(a) Bright green lights in the sky.
(b) A lack of moonlight.
(c) An explosion.
(d) Darkness.

12. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Join him.
(c) Report him.
(d) Hit him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Colonel suggest the colony does immediately?

2. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?

3. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

4. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?

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

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