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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was considered the main problem in the world prior to the triffids?
(a) Lack of sunlight.
(b) Lack of food.
(c) Lack of water.
(d) Lack of oxygen.

4. What jobs are given to Bill and Josella by Michael Beadley?
(a) To collect food and supplies.
(b) To collect medical supplies.
(c) To collect transportation.
(d) To collect money.

5. Why did Josella move home following her success?
(a) She was being followed.
(b) People she didn't like began harassing her.
(c) She missed her family.
(d) She needed the money.

6. What does Umberto Christofoto Palanguez bring to the Arctic & European Fish Oil Company?
(a) Triffid seeds.
(b) Triffid instructions.
(c) Pink triffid oil.
(d) Triffid plants.

7. What falls from Umberto's plane?
(a) Triffid seeds.
(b) Triffid instructions.
(c) Pink triffid oil.
(d) Triffid plants.

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

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

10. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is taken captive.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is hit.
(d) He is laughed at.

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

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

13. What do people learn about triffids that surprises and disgusts them slightly?
(a) They are animals.
(b) They are carnivores.
(c) They are diseased.
(d) They are full of germs.

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

15. What does Beadley note could have happened to the world?
(a) It could have been destroyed.
(b) It could have been saved.
(c) It could have exploded.
(d) It could have been expanded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Josella admit she wrote?

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

3. Who does Bill meet first in Chapter Three?

4. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

5. What does Beadley think of Bill in relation to triffids?

(see the answer keys)

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