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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. What is Josella's opinion of the future?
(a) They will not like it much.
(b) It is uncertain.
(c) It is full of promise.
(d) It is deadly.

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

3. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Commit suicide.
(b) Murder his children.
(c) Murder his wife.
(d) Leave town.

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was at work.
(b) She was asleep.
(c) She was in the hospital.
(d) She was at a party.

5. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?
(a) Being killed.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Being caught again.
(d) Being raped.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?

3. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?

4. What does the narrator note occurred on May 7th?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the walking style of a triffid.

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

3. Why does Bill not kill the man holding Josella captive?

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

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

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

8. Describe the scene where the narrator first learns of the blindness that plagues mankind.

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

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

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