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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 happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?
(a) The plant died.
(b) The plant grew to 18 feet.
(c) The plant walked.
(d) The plant talked.

2. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?
(a) Because they can be impregnated to bear sighted children.
(b) Because they can be used as sex slaves.
(c) Because they still work for the community.
(d) Because they can be used as work slaves.

3. What can the child do that others cannot?
(a) She can hear.
(b) She can run.
(c) She can smell.
(d) She can see.

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

5. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are carnivores.
(b) They are animals.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are full of germs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?

3. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

4. What is the young woman's name?

5. Who is Elspeth Cary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Explain how the seeds of the triffid came to spread across the world, according to the story by Bill of Umberto Palanguez.

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

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

8. 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?

9. What is revealed about the triffids in Chapter Four, and how is this revealed in the book?

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

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