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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?
(a) That people have been stealing supplies.
(b) That people have been fighting one another.
(c) That people have been raping women.
(d) That people have been killing others.

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

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

4. How did Josella avoid being blinded?
(a) She was in the hospital.
(b) She was at work.
(c) She was asleep.
(d) She was at a party.

5. What was the result of this event?
(a) A lack of moonlight.
(b) An explosion.
(c) Bright green lights in the sky.
(d) Darkness.

6. 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.

7. Who is the young woman on the committee at the meeting?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) A scientist.

8. What time does the clock chime, which indicates a problem to the narrator?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

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

10. What do some nations eject into space?
(a) Satellites with atomic heads.
(b) Unwanted people.
(c) Nuclear missiles.
(d) Garbage.

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

12. Where does Bill go in the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) He goes to Ireland.
(b) He goes to the United States.
(c) He goes to London.
(d) He goes to the country.

13. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?
(a) He eats food from his own garden.
(b) He pays someone to make him a sandwich.
(c) He enters a shop that has already been broken into.
(d) He finds an animal and kills it for food.

14. How does the blind man have the woman held captive?
(a) She is tied to him, with her hands also tied.
(b) She is tied to a wall, with her hands also tied.
(c) She is tied to a wall, with her feet bound.
(d) She is tied to him, with her feet bound.

15. What does Walter Lucknor claim the plants are doing when they strike their three sticks against their base?
(a) They are counting.
(b) They are talking.
(c) They are calling others.
(d) They are mating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?

2. What is the young woman's name?

3. Why does Bill seem to be looking forward to the future?

4. What happens to Bill as he tries to help Pearson?

5. What is Josella's opinion of the future?

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