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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 Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?
(a) He enters a shop that has already been broken into.
(b) He eats food from his own garden.
(c) He finds an animal and kills it for food.
(d) He pays someone to make him a sandwich.

2. What can the child do that others cannot?
(a) She can see.
(b) She can smell.
(c) She can hear.
(d) She can run.

3. What alerted Josella to the crisis?
(a) Her father was blind.
(b) Her mother was blind.
(c) Her husband was blind.
(d) Her child was blind.

4. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are animals.
(b) They are diseased.
(c) They are full of germs.
(d) They are carnivores.

5. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?
(a) She is tied to a wall, with her feet bound.
(b) She is tied to a wall, with her hands also tied.
(c) She is tied to him, with her hands also tied.
(d) She is tied to him, with her feet bound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?

2. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

3. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

4. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?

5. What does the Colonel suggest the colony does immediately?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is revealed about the triffids in Chapter Four, and how is this revealed in the book?

2. Explain Bill's response to the argument at the gate between the sighted and the blind.

3. Explain what the landlord at the end of chapter 1 plans on doing, and how.

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What clues does the narrator have that there is something wrong when he wakes in the hospital?

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

10. 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.

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