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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why can Mary not be moved?
(a) She is a baby.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She is disabled.
(d) She is pregnant.

3. What does Josella realize as she explains her escape from Russell Square, and the gunshot?
(a) That Miss Durrant was the one who fired the shot.
(b) That Coker was the one who fired the shot.
(c) That Bill was the one who fired the shot.
(d) That Susan was the one who fired the shot.

4. What does Bill fear has happened to Josella?
(a) He fears she has taken a lover.
(b) He fears she has been attacked.
(c) He fears she has died from the plague.
(d) He fears she has been kidnapped.

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

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

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

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

9. Why can Bill leave at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) Most of his group have fled, as the rest are dying of plague.
(b) Most of his group have been shot, and the rest have escaped.
(c) Most of his group have starved, and the rest have escaped.
(d) Most of his group have died of plague, and the rest have been shot.

10. What wakes Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) A bell.
(b) Screams.
(c) A gun shot.
(d) A phone.

11. Why does Coker argue that the young woman mending in the kitchen is at fault?
(a) She is lazy.
(b) She has no direction.
(c) She started an engine wrong.
(d) She does not try to use her brains.

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

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

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

15. What does Bill notice about his hands?
(a) They are burned.
(b) They are bloody.
(c) They are tied together.
(d) They are broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Susan's friend?

2. Who does Dennis find in the village?

3. Why can't Bill simply take Josella away from the farm?

4. What does Coker explain is Bill's new job?

5. What does Bill learn Coker did at the University?

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