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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 does Bill reveal about radio broadcasts?
(a) They are normal.
(b) Those in other countries are still functioning.
(c) They are jumbled.
(d) There are none.

2. What does Bill point out to Josella after the argument?
(a) That the sighted are wrong to ignore the blind.
(b) That they cannot hope to save the sighted.
(c) That they must choose between saving the sighted, and saving the blind.
(d) That they cannot hope to save the blind.

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

4. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?
(a) She can justify it because the choice gives them purpose.
(b) She can justify it because the choice gives them survival.
(c) She can justify it because the choice gives them babies.
(d) She can justify it because the choice gives them money.

5. What is the young woman's name?
(a) Josella Playton.
(b) Josella Smith.
(c) Josella Russell.
(d) Josella Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?

2. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?

3. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?

4. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

5. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain why Bill decides to go to London at the beginning of Chapter Three?

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. Explain why Bill feels a sense of relief at his new situation?

10. 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?

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