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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. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He has one in his home.
(b) He grows them.
(c) We works with them.
(d) He developed them.

2. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) He is relieved.
(b) He is elated.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) He is lonely.

3. What does the triffid do at the end of Chapter Four?
(a) It dies.
(b) It kills Josella.
(c) It attacks the car.
(d) It begins to 'talk'.

4. Why does Josella wear such extravagant clothing the first evening Bill and she are together?
(a) She is saying goodbye to frivolity.
(b) She is trying to reclaim her beauty.
(c) She is trying to entice Bill.
(d) She always dresses in such a manner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?

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

3. Where do Josella and Bill stay on the first evening?

4. What happened in Indo-China that related the strangeness of the triffid?

5. What was the result of this event?

(see the answer key)

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