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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant wants?
(a) Help.
(b) A child.
(c) A lover.
(d) A way out.
2. Who does the little girl want Bill to check on?
(a) Andy.
(b) Joe.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Billy.
3. What strikes the man in Steeple Honey inn?
(a) A triffid.
(b) A car.
(c) A bullet.
(d) A tree.
4. Where are Susan's parents?
(a) They are in the hospital.
(b) They are dead.
(c) They are inside the house.
(d) They have disappeared.
5. What does Josella realize as she explains her escape from Russell Square, and the gunshot?
(a) That Coker was the one who fired the shot.
(b) That Bill was the one who fired the shot.
(c) That Susan was the one who fired the shot.
(d) That Miss Durrant was the one who fired the shot.
6. What does Bill learn Coker did at the University?
(a) Faked a fire to kidnap the blind.
(b) Set a fire to kidnap the sighted.
(c) Faked a fire to kidnap the sighted.
(d) Set a fire to kill the sighted.
7. What is Bill tied to once allowed outside?
(a) Two tough blind men.
(b) A chair.
(c) A truck.
(d) Two blind women.
8. What surprises Bill when he hears Coker quote poetry?
(a) Coker has a photographic memory.
(b) Coker is uneducated.
(c) Coker has a Northern accent.
(d) Coker is well spoken.
9. Where does the man at the end of Chapter Eleven shoot?
(a) Into Bill's truck.
(b) Into Coker's truck.
(c) Over Coker's head.
(d) Over Bill's head.
10. What did Stephen Brennell do prior to the crisis?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a doctor.
(c) He was a member of the stock exchange.
(d) He was a member of a social club.
11. Who does Bill find at the cottage?
(a) Josella.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Miss Durrant.
(d) Coker.
12. What wakes Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) A gun shot.
(b) A phone.
(c) Screams.
(d) A bell.
13. What does Bill note about the sheep and cattle?
(a) They are blind.
(b) They are restless.
(c) They are wandering.
(d) They are sighted.
14. What saved Joyce's life?
(a) A local doctor.
(b) Dennis and Mary's ability to care for her.
(c) Josella.
(d) An antidote.
15. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?
(a) He believes they talk.
(b) He believes they are aliens.
(c) He believes they are all dead.
(d) He believes they are acts of God.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Alf admit he thinks about whether people are coming to rescue them?
2. What does the young blind woman offer Bill at the end of Chapter Eight?
3. Who does Dennis find in the village?
4. Who finds Bill in Russell Square?
5. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant will do?
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