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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 Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are talking.
(b) They are mating.
(c) They are counting.
(d) They are calling others.

2. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?
(a) She ran out of gas.
(b) Her brakes failed.
(c) The roads were impassable.
(d) Her tire was flat.

3. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?
(a) A hovel.
(b) A hotel room.
(c) Josella's home.
(d) An extravagant apartment.

4. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they are aliens.
(b) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(c) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(d) He thinks they spontaneously generated.

5. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?
(a) To collect food and supplies.
(b) To collect money.
(c) To collect medical supplies.
(d) To collect transportation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?

5. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Describe the walking style of a triffid.

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

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

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

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