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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is laughed at.
(b) He is taken captive.
(c) He is hit.
(d) He is killed.

3. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) The sounds of traffic.
(b) A woman playing piano and singing.
(c) The sounds of children playing.
(d) A man playing piano and singing.

4. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He grows them.
(b) He developed them.
(c) He has one in his home.
(d) We works with them.

5. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Meat.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

2. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?

3. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?

4. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?

5. What book does Josella admit she wrote?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the difference between Josella's view of triffids and Bill's. Why are they do drastically different?

2. Explain the irony of the blind man Bill finds in Chapter Three, who was blind before the comet.

3. Explain the argument of Beadley that the world is better off after the comet than it was before.

4. Describe the argument between the sighted leader of the blind at the gates of University Tower and the sighted leaders of the sighted colony at the university.

5. Explain why the Colonel and the others want to leave London?

6. Do you think the narrator is right to leave the blind group in the lobby of the hospital, knowing they cannot see to get out?

7. What is happening to society at the beginning of Chapter Four, and why?

8. What is revealed about the new use for sighted children and blind women in Chapter Three?

9. Describe the circumstances that resulted in Bill's hospitalization.

10. Describe why Bill finds it difficult at first to break the law, even for food.

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