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

2. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?
(a) He is attacked by a blind man.
(b) He is hit by a car.
(c) He is stung by a triffid.
(d) He is shot.

3. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?
(a) She is tied to him, with her hands also tied.
(b) She is tied to a wall, with her hands also tied.
(c) She is tied to him, with her feet bound.
(d) She is tied to a wall, with her feet bound.

4. What do some nations eject into space?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Unwanted people.
(c) Satellites with atomic heads.
(d) Nuclear missiles.

5. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
(a) They were planted by a radical group.
(b) They were spontaneously generated.
(c) They were magical.
(d) They were planted by gardeners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?

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

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

4. Where does Bill take the young woman?

5. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

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