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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 the group see at night on the roof?
(a) Lights.
(b) People.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Nothing.

2. Why can Mary not be moved?
(a) She is disabled.
(b) She is sick.
(c) She is a baby.
(d) She is pregnant.

3. Where does Bill search second for Josella?
(a) Exmoor.
(b) University Tower.
(c) Tynsham.
(d) Westminster.

4. Why does Coker argue that the young woman mending in the kitchen is at fault?
(a) She does not try to use her brains.
(b) She is lazy.
(c) She started an engine wrong.
(d) She has no direction.

5. At University Tower, where does the writing say the community has gone?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Devizes.
(c) Exmoor.
(d) Tynsham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bill find at the cottage?

2. What surprises Bill when he hears Coker quote poetry?

3. What strikes the man in Steeple Honey inn?

4. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?

5. What does Coker point out are the most dangerous things?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain some of the mishaps that befall Bill as he journey's to find Josella.

2. Describe Shirning Farm.

3. Describe the three people Bill and Coker meet in Beaminster.

4. Describe Miss Durrant's views, and her Tynsham community.

5. Explain how Coker describes himself, and his abilities.

6. Describe Bill's view of loneliness.

7. Describe the scene with the man in the inn at Steeple Honey.

8. Describe how Coker came to remain sighted.

9. Explain why the young woman comes to Bill in his room in Chapter Eight, and his reaction.

10. Explain what Coker wants of the new sighted captives.

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