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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 Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?
(a) Pink triffid oil.
(b) Triffid instructions.
(c) Triffid plants.
(d) Triffid seeds.

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

3. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Merryn's.
(d) St. Julian's.

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was in the hospital.
(b) She was at work.
(c) She was asleep.
(d) She was at a party.

5. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Elspeth Cary?

2. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?

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

4. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?

5. Why did Josella move home following her success?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the walking style of a triffid.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Give a brief explanation of the various speculations pertaining to the coming of the triffids.

9. 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.

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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