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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bill tied to once allowed outside?
(a) Two tough blind men.
(b) Two blind women.
(c) A truck.
(d) A chair.

2. What does Bill find in the hallway as he runs?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Debris.
(c) Water.
(d) Fire.

3. What does Bill note about the sheep and cattle?
(a) They are sighted.
(b) They are restless.
(c) They are blind.
(d) They are wandering.

4. Who does Dennis find in the village?
(a) A small girl.
(b) A small boy.
(c) Joan.
(d) No one.

5. What does the redheaded leader of the other group do when he sights Bill?
(a) He shoots at them.
(b) He swears at them.
(c) He follows them to their hotel.
(d) He says hello.

6. What does Bill begin to see in London proper?
(a) Gangs.
(b) Police.
(c) Triffids.
(d) Military.

7. What does Bill discover has happened at Tynsham?
(a) The plague has hit.
(b) The people have rioted.
(c) The people have fled.
(d) The people have been killed by triffids.

8. How many individuals are in Bill's group?
(a) Fifty two.
(b) Thirty seven.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

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

10. What do Coker and Bill find at Tynsham?
(a) It is deserted.
(b) A community of blind and sighted.
(c) A community of blind.
(d) A community of sighted.

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

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

13. What does Bill load up on at the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Women.

14. What feeling does Bill have after his long first day searching for Josella?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Sadness.

15. Where does Miss Durrant indicate Beadley's party has gone?
(a) Beaminster.
(b) London.
(c) Westminster.
(d) Exmoor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?

2. Why can Mary not be moved?

3. What does the dark haired man in Beaminster want to open?

4. What does the group see at night on the roof?

5. Where does Bill search first for Josella?

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