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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is his response to what he hears in the garden?
(a) He sits quietly.
(b) He screams.
(c) He cries.
(d) He yells for silence.
2. Where does Bill go at the end of Chapter Three?
(a) Out into the world.
(b) Into a bar.
(c) To his parents' house.
(d) Into a hospital.
3. Who does the narrator meet at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Joelle.
(b) The landlord of the pub.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Walter.
4. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Eight.
5. How does the narrator learn that blindness has afflicted people?
(a) He finds blind persons in a ward.
(b) A nurse explains it to him.
(c) He watches a news cast on television.
(d) He hears it on the radio.
6. What does Bill hear as he eats in the garden?
(a) The sounds of traffic.
(b) A woman playing piano and singing.
(c) The sounds of children playing.
(d) A man playing piano and singing.
7. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?
(a) He thinks they were biologically developed.
(b) He thinks they spontaneously generated.
(c) He thinks they were a freak of nature.
(d) He thinks they are aliens.
8. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) She needed the money.
(b) She missed her family.
(c) She was being followed.
(d) People she didn't like began harassing her.
9. Where does the narrator go first when he leaves the hospital?
(a) A pub.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A police station.
(d) A Laundromat.
10. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Meat.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Cheese.
11. What happened to Bill as a child that caused curiosity about triffids?
(a) He grew one for a science project.
(b) He was stung by one.
(c) He killed one.
(d) He ate one accidentally.
12. How does Bill know so much of the triffids?
(a) He has one in his home.
(b) He developed them.
(c) He grows them.
(d) We works with them.
13. What book does Josella admit she wrote?
(a) Sex is Fun.
(b) Sex is Sexy.
(c) Sex is My Adventure.
(d) Sex is Sin.
14. What does Bill recall Walter saying about the triffids and blind men?
(a) That the blind are like the triffids.
(b) That the blind are simple food for triffids.
(c) That the blind are not superior any longer.
(d) That the blind are superior to a triffid.
15. What is the name of the hospital in which the narrator is residing?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Merryn's.
(d) St. Julian's.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do Bill and Josella go at the end of Chapter Four?
2. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?
3. What is one theory of how the triffids appeared?
4. What does Vorless, the sociologist, say about belief?
5. What does the elderly man Bill sees in the beginning of Chapter Four carry?
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