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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Bill find at the cottage?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Miss Durrant.
(c) Coker.
(d) Josella.
2. What are the flame throwers used for?
(a) Killing triffids.
(b) Starting fires.
(c) Clearing land.
(d) Killing animals.
3. What does the redheaded leader of the other group do when he sights Bill?
(a) He says hello.
(b) He shoots at them.
(c) He follows them to their hotel.
(d) He swears at them.
4. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant wants?
(a) A lover.
(b) A child.
(c) Help.
(d) A way out.
5. What attacks the group in the provision store?
(a) Triffids.
(b) Sighted persons.
(c) Blind persons.
(d) Dogs.
6. Where does Miss Durrant indicate Beadley's party has gone?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Beaminster.
(c) London.
(d) Exmoor.
7. What does Bill fear has happened to Josella?
(a) He fears she has died from the plague.
(b) He fears she has been kidnapped.
(c) He fears she has been attacked.
(d) He fears she has taken a lover.
8. Where are Susan's parents?
(a) They are dead.
(b) They have disappeared.
(c) They are inside the house.
(d) They are in the hospital.
9. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Sussex Downs.
(b) London.
(c) Tynsham.
(d) Exmoor.
10. What does Bill learn on the fifth day of his slavery that worries him?
(a) There is a sickness spreading through the group.
(b) Half the group has died.
(c) Half the group has been lost.
(d) There is despair spreading through the group.
11. Where does Bill search second for Josella?
(a) University Tower.
(b) Exmoor.
(c) Westminster.
(d) Tynsham.
12. What happens when Bill drives too fast in the small town?
(a) He runs into a van.
(b) He runs into a building.
(c) He hits a person.
(d) He hits a triffid.
13. How does Bill try to signal Josella?
(a) With his headlights.
(b) With a smoke signal.
(c) With a fire.
(d) With a large searchlight.
14. What wakes Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) A phone.
(b) A gun shot.
(c) Screams.
(d) A bell.
15. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?
(a) Thanklessness and selfishness.
(b) Laziness and stubbornness.
(c) Decadence, immorality, and lack of faith.
(d) Communism.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Dennis keep from becoming lost?
2. What happened to Joan and Ted?
3. Why does Coker argue that the young woman mending in the kitchen is at fault?
4. What does the group see at night on the roof?
5. What does Alf admit he thinks about whether people are coming to rescue them?
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