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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are not superior any longer.
(b) That the blind are superior to a triffid.
(c) That the blind are simple food for triffids.
(d) That the blind are like the triffids.

2. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) A doctor.
(b) The landlord of the pub.
(c) Joelle.
(d) Walter.

3. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are counting.
(b) They are talking.
(c) They are calling others.
(d) They are mating.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?

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

3. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?

4. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?

5. Where does Bill go in the beginning of Chapter Three?

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