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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 young blind woman offer Bill at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Herself.

2. What does Dennis build to help him make it into town?
(a) A vehicle.
(b) A helmet.
(c) A blow torch.
(d) A gun.

3. What are the flame throwers used for?
(a) Clearing land.
(b) Killing triffids.
(c) Killing animals.
(d) Starting fires.

4. What does Bill fear has happened to Josella?
(a) He fears she has been kidnapped.
(b) He fears she has died from the plague.
(c) He fears she has been attacked.
(d) He fears she has taken a lover.

5. Who does the little girl want Bill to check on?
(a) Andy.
(b) Joe.
(c) Billy.
(d) Tommy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dennis learn to help him in the future?

2. Where do Coker and Bill go at the end of Chapter Nine?

3. What does Bill help the young woman do at the end of Chapter Eight?

4. What does Bill learn on the fifth day of his slavery that worries him?

5. What does the redheaded leader of the other group do when he sights Bill?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Coker meets with Bill again.

2. Describe Bill's view of loneliness.

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

4. Explain what Bill finds at Tynsham.

5. Describe how Bill finds Josella.

6. Describe what occurs to the young woman at the end of Chapter Eight, and Bill's thoughts of her.

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

8. Explain Josella's fears about her wedding.

9. Why do you think the small groups located by helicopter in Chapter Twelve choose not to join other groups?

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

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