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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 try to do to the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) Join him.
(b) Report him.
(c) Hit him.
(d) Kill him.

2. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?
(a) He cannot find a shop.
(b) He does not want to break the law.
(c) He does not have money.
(d) He cannot find food.

3. Where does Bill go in the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) He goes to Ireland.
(b) He goes to London.
(c) He goes to the country.
(d) He goes to the United States.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?

4. What do some nations eject into space?

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

(see the answer key)

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