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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the young woman's name?
2. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?
3. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
4. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?
5. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the different aspects of society Bill and Josella say goodbye to in Chapter Five.
2. What is happening to society at the beginning of Chapter Four, and why?
3. Explain why the Colonel and the others want to leave London?
4. Describe the circumstances that resulted in Bill's hospitalization.
5. Explain what the landlord at the end of chapter 1 plans on doing, and how.
6. Explain the difference between Josella's view of triffids and Bill's. Why are they do drastically different?
7. Do you think the narrator is right to leave the blind group in the lobby of the hospital, knowing they cannot see to get out?
8. What clues does the narrator have that there is something wrong when he wakes in the hospital?
9. 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.
10. Describe why Bill finds it difficult at first to break the law, even for food.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the novel, there are several small communities that are introduced, including those of University Tower, Tynsham, Shirning, the Isle of Wright, and others. Describe at least two of these communities in detail. What are their beliefs about the role of women? About freedom? About morality? What are some of the social ideas presented within these communities? Which succeed, which fail, and why? Which society would you join? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Explain Bill's belief about the end of civilization, based on his previous comments in the novel about the dangers of satellites and the hostility of the world, as well as his comments in Chapter Fifteen about the walking of the world on a tightrope. What do you think Bill means by this? What do you think he believes caused the end of civilization? What does he say he thinks caused the comet? What is Josella's response to his belief? Do you agree with his thoughts? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of the triffid in the novel? How does the author seem to imply the triffid was created? What does this symbolize in terms of the culture of Wyndham's time? What was he trying to say about biological tampering and the creation of government-born viruses and mutations? Why was this a point at the time the novel was written? Be sure to include details from the book to explain your answers and to justify your arguments.
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