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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill help the young woman do at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Find food.
(c) Escape.
(d) Kill her keeper.

2. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?
(a) He believes they are aliens.
(b) He believes they are acts of God.
(c) He believes they talk.
(d) He believes they are all dead.

3. How does Dennis keep from becoming lost?
(a) He marks his way with chalk so others can find him.
(b) He strings twine behind him as he walks.
(c) He uses a radio to communicate with the sighted.
(d) He uses a compass as he walks.

4. What does the dark haired man in Beaminster want to open?
(a) A radio store.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A liquor store.
(d) A hardware store.

5. Who finds Bill in Russell Square?
(a) Coker.
(b) Alf.
(c) Josella.
(d) Evan.

6. What happened to Joan and Ted?
(a) They died of plague.
(b) They died of starvation.
(c) They disappeared when they went for help.
(d) They died in an accident.

7. What are the flame throwers used for?
(a) Killing triffids.
(b) Killing animals.
(c) Starting fires.
(d) Clearing land.

8. What does Susan say about her previous meals of junk food?
(a) They were not satisfying.
(b) They were pleasant.
(c) They were filling.
(d) They were delicious.

9. What did Stephen Brennell do prior to the crisis?
(a) He was a member of a social club.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a member of the stock exchange.
(d) He was a doctor.

10. What surprises Bill when he hears Coker quote poetry?
(a) Coker is uneducated.
(b) Coker is well spoken.
(c) Coker has a Northern accent.
(d) Coker has a photographic memory.

11. What does Bill notice is attracted to the farm?
(a) Birds.
(b) Gnats.
(c) Triffids.
(d) Wasps.

12. What saved Joyce's life?
(a) Dennis and Mary's ability to care for her.
(b) A local doctor.
(c) Josella.
(d) An antidote.

13. What does the young blind woman offer Bill at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) Water.
(b) Herself.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

14. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant will do?
(a) Seduce the priest.
(b) Leave Tynsham.
(c) Run Tynsham into the ground.
(d) Find a lover.

15. Who does the young woman in Beaminster believe is coming to save them?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Americans.
(c) No one.
(d) The Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Bill leave at the end of Chapter Eight?

2. Where does the man at the end of Chapter Eleven shoot?

3. Where does Bill search second for Josella?

4. What does Bill notice about his hands?

5. What does Bill eventually see in the darkness?

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