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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. 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.

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

3. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?
(a) Sighted burglars have attacked and killed everyone.
(b) Her father has gone mad.
(c) The blind have attacked and killed everyone.
(d) Triffids have attacked and killed everyone.

4. Who is Elspeth Cary?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A reporter.
(d) A doctor.

5. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is lonely.
(b) He is relieved.
(c) He is elated.
(d) He is depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?

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

3. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is revealed about the new use for sighted children and blind women in Chapter Three?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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