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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. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?
(a) He can find a new wife.
(b) He is no longer a cog, but his own master.
(c) He can find a new profession.
(d) He is no longer employed.

2. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are superior to a triffid.
(b) That the blind are like the triffids.
(c) That the blind are not superior any longer.
(d) That the blind are simple food for triffids.

3. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?
(a) That people have been raping women.
(b) That people have been stealing supplies.
(c) That people have been fighting one another.
(d) That people have been killing others.

4. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He killed one.
(b) He ate one accidentally.
(c) He grew one for a science project.
(d) He was stung by one.

5. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were planted by gardeners.
(b) They were spontaneously generated.
(c) They were planted by a radical group.
(d) They were magical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?

3. What do Bill and Josella see at the gates of the University Tower?

4. What do some nations eject into space?

5. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. Describe the different aspects of society Bill and Josella say goodbye to in Chapter Five.

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

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

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