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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. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?
(a) Doctors will remove stitches from his face.
(b) Doctors will remove staples from his legs.
(c) Doctors will remove bandages from his eyes.
(d) Doctors will remove bandages from his knee.

2. What do Bill and Josella see in the night that chooses for them where to go in the morning?
(a) A bright searchlight in the distance.
(b) Car lights in the distance.
(c) A light from a fire in the distance.
(d) The light of a plane in the distance.

3. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That he wants to own a triffid.
(b) That he doesn't want to work with triffids anymore.
(c) That he wants to marry and have children.
(d) That he doesn't want to live in London anymore.

4. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were planted by gardeners.
(b) They were planted by a radical group.
(c) They were magical.
(d) They were spontaneously generated.

5. What do some nations eject into space?
(a) Nuclear missiles.
(b) Satellites with atomic heads.
(c) Unwanted people.
(d) Garbage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?

2. How does the narrator follow the event?

3. Who is Elspeth Cary?

4. What did Bill's father do for a living?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events of the night of May 7th, in terms of what the narrator notes is said to have occurred, according to history books.

2. Do you agree with Bill's statement at the end of Chapter Six that man is lost without his ability to see? Why or why not?

3. What are the potential uses of satellites, according to Bill?

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

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

6. Describe the walking style of a triffid.

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

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

9. Describe the different aspects of society Bill and Josella say goodbye to in Chapter Five.

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

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