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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. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) Everyone believed the same things, politically.
(b) No one had contact with one another.
(c) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(d) Everyone lived happily together.

2. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) A pub.
(c) A Laundromat.
(d) A police station.

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

4. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That he wants to own a triffid.
(b) That he doesn't want to work with triffids anymore.
(c) That he doesn't want to live in London anymore.
(d) That he wants to marry and have children.

5. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?
(a) Lack of oxygen.
(b) Lack of water.
(c) Lack of sunlight.
(d) Lack of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?

2. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?

3. What did Bill's father do for a living?

4. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

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

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