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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Coker escape blindness?
(a) He was in bed.
(b) He was in the hospital.
(c) He was hiding out in a cellar.
(d) He was in jail.

2. What does Coker explain is Bill's new job?
(a) He is to work on a farm to produce more food.
(b) He is to be the eyes for a group of blind individuals.
(c) He is to be the muscle for his armed group.
(d) He is to be an inside man at the colony.

3. What does the dark haired man in Beaminster want to open?
(a) A radio store.
(b) A liquor store.
(c) A hardware store.
(d) A clothing store.

4. Why can't Bill simply take Josella away from the farm?
(a) They have no transportation.
(b) There are others who depend on her.
(c) She refuses to leave.
(d) It is too dangerous.

5. What method does the group use next to search for Beadley's party?
(a) A boat.
(b) A tank.
(c) A helicopter.
(d) A fighter jet.

6. What happens when Bill drives too fast in the small town?
(a) He runs into a van.
(b) He hits a triffid.
(c) He hits a person.
(d) He runs into a building.

7. What do Coker and Bill find at Tynsham?
(a) A community of sighted.
(b) It is deserted.
(c) A community of blind and sighted.
(d) A community of blind.

8. Who does the little girl want Bill to check on?
(a) Billy.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Andy.
(d) Joe.

9. What does Bill load up on at the beginning of Chapter Nine?
(a) Women.
(b) Food.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Water.

10. What does Miss Durrant see as the fall of mankind?
(a) Decadence, immorality, and lack of faith.
(b) Thanklessness and selfishness.
(c) Laziness and stubbornness.
(d) Communism.

11. What does Bill reiterate to Coker about triffids?
(a) He believes they are aliens.
(b) He believes they talk.
(c) He believes they are acts of God.
(d) He believes they are all dead.

12. What does Alf admit he thinks about whether people are coming to rescue them?
(a) He believes no one is coming.
(b) He believes someone has already come.
(c) He believes someone will come.
(d) He believes no rescue is required.

13. What happened to Joan and Ted?
(a) They died of starvation.
(b) They disappeared when they went for help.
(c) They died in an accident.
(d) They died of plague.

14. Who does Dennis find in the village?
(a) A small boy.
(b) A small girl.
(c) No one.
(d) Joan.

15. At University Tower, where does the writing say the community has gone?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Devizes.
(c) Tynsham.
(d) Exmoor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill find Josella's district to be?

2. What saved Joyce's life?

3. What does the group see at night on the roof?

4. What does Susan say about her previous meals of junk food?

5. What feeling does Bill have after his long first day searching for Josella?

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