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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?
(a) He wanted him to become a banker.
(b) He wanted him to become a lawyer.
(c) He wanted him to become an accountant.
(d) He wanted him to become a doctor.

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

3. What is the young woman's name?
(a) Josella Smith.
(b) Josella Jones.
(c) Josella Playton.
(d) Josella Russell.

4. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?
(a) Josella.
(b) A man who was blind before the comet.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Coker.

5. What do Bill and Josella see at the gates of the University Tower?
(a) An argument between two blind men.
(b) An argument between a sighted man and a woman.
(c) An argument between two women.
(d) An argument between the sighted and the blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?

2. What do Bill and Josella see in the night that chooses for them where to go in the morning?

3. Why does Josella agree to the taking on of blind women for such a purpose?

4. What do some nations eject into space?

5. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?

(see the answer key)

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