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

2. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Meat.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Oranges.

3. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?
(a) A northern suburb of Venice.
(b) A southern suburb of Dublin.
(c) A northern suburb of Chicago.
(d) A southern suburb of London.

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

5. What do Bill and Josella find when they reach her father's house?
(a) The blind have attacked and killed everyone.
(b) Triffids have attacked and killed everyone.
(c) Sighted burglars have attacked and killed everyone.
(d) Her father has gone mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?

2. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?

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

4. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?

5. How does the narrator follow the event?

(see the answer key)

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