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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?
(a) Belief can not be right or wrong, but only right for a specific population.
(b) Belief is either right, or wrong.
(c) Belief can be both right and wrong.
(d) Belief is always right.

2. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?
(a) He screams.
(b) He sits quietly.
(c) He yells for silence.
(d) He cries.

3. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Red paint.
(c) Meat.
(d) A dog.

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

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

6. What day does the narrator compare Wednesday to, based on sound?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Thursday.

7. What can the child do that others cannot?
(a) She can smell.
(b) She can hear.
(c) She can run.
(d) She can see.

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

9. What does the sighted leader of blind drunks take from the streets and give to one of the men?
(a) A child.
(b) A cat.
(c) A woman.
(d) A dog.

10. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A Laundromat.
(b) A pub.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A police station.

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

12. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(b) He watches a news cast on television.
(c) He hears it on the radio.
(d) A nurse explains it to him.

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

14. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?
(a) A dog's bark.
(b) A man's voice.
(c) A woman's scream.
(d) A child's laugh.

15. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?
(a) He can find a new wife.
(b) He is no longer employed.
(c) He is no longer a cog, but his own master.
(d) He can find a new profession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

2. Why does Bill have trouble solving his hunger problem at first?

3. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?

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

5. How did Josella avoid being blinded?

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