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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. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) He watches it.
(b) By radio.
(c) By television.
(d) By internet postings.

2. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?
(a) He wanted him to become a banker.
(b) He wanted him to become an accountant.
(c) He wanted him to become a lawyer.
(d) He wanted him to become a doctor.

3. Who is Elspeth Cary?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A lawyer.

4. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?
(a) The roads were impassable.
(b) Her tire was flat.
(c) Her brakes failed.
(d) She ran out of gas.

5. Why do Josella and Bill go to Clerkenwell once they leave Josella's home?
(a) For triffid guns.
(b) For water.
(c) To find people.
(d) For food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?

2. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?

3. Who is the young woman on the committee at the meeting?

4. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?

5. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What surprises Josella about her actions when she was captive?

3. Following the witness of a couple committing suicide, Bill admits to himself that he must 'grow a hide'. Explain his meaning.

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

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

6. Explain how the seeds of the triffid came to spread across the world, according to the story by Bill of Umberto Palanguez.

7. 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.

8. Explain Vorless' opinion on the new role of men and women in society.

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

10. Give a brief explanation of the various speculations pertaining to the coming of the triffids.

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