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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. Why does Walter believe triffids strike the head?
(a) They are trying to crack the skull.
(b) They are trying to knock people unconscious.
(c) They are trying to deafen people.
(d) They are trying to blind people.

2. Where did Bill first see a triffid?
(a) In a zoo.
(b) In a botanical garden.
(c) In a factory.
(d) In his garden as a child.

3. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) A man playing piano and singing.
(b) A woman playing piano and singing.
(c) The sounds of traffic.
(d) The sounds of children playing.

4. Why does Bill not help people in the beginning of Chapter Four?
(a) He is unable to see.
(b) He sees they are slowly losing control.
(c) He is cruel.
(d) He sees they do not need assistance.

5. Why does Vorless proclaim the community can support blind women?
(a) Because they can be impregnated to bear sighted children.
(b) Because they can be used as sex slaves.
(c) Because they still work for the community.
(d) Because they can be used as work slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

2. What book does Josella admit she wrote?

3. What does the Colonel suggest the colony does immediately?

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

5. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?

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