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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bill first see a triffid?
(a) In his garden as a child.
(b) In a botanical garden.
(c) In a factory.
(d) In a zoo.

2. How does the narrator follow the event?
(a) By television.
(b) By radio.
(c) By internet postings.
(d) He watches it.

3. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He hears it on the radio.
(b) A nurse explains it to him.
(c) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(d) He watches a news cast on television.

4. What is the man at the end of Chapter 1 going to do?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Murder his children.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Murder his wife.

5. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

2. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?

3. What falls from Umberto's plane?

4. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?

5. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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