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

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

3. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A northern suburb of Venice.
(b) A southern suburb of London.
(c) A northern suburb of Chicago.
(d) A southern suburb of Dublin.

4. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is laughed at.
(b) He is hit.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is taken captive.

5. What does the main character admit the triffids did for him?
(a) Made him happy.
(b) Made him wealthy.
(c) Saved his life.
(d) Made him popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?

2. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

3. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?

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

5. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?

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. Explain the argument of Beadley that the world is better off after the comet than it was before.

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the walking style of a triffid.

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

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

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