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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Bill make the solution to his hunger even more acceptable?
(a) He offers his garden food to others.
(b) He offers to help the person who makes his food.
(c) He offers part of the dead animal to others.
(d) He pays for his food.

3. What does Bill claim is the reason there were few wars in the time immediately prior to the triffids?
(a) No one had contact with one another.
(b) Everyone believed the same things, politically.
(c) No one believed their chances of winning were good.
(d) Everyone lived happily together.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?

2. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?

3. What do Bill and Josella see at the gates of the University Tower?

4. What caused Josella to have to leave her vehicle as she went to find the doctor?

5. How does Bill solve the hunger issue to his standards?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what the landlord at the end of chapter 1 plans on doing, and how.

2. Describe the different aspects of society Bill and Josella say goodbye to in Chapter Five.

3. Do you agree with Bill's statement at the end of Chapter Six that man is lost without his ability to see? Why or why not?

4. Explain Vorless' opinion on the new role of men and women in society.

5. Describe the circumstances that resulted in Bill's hospitalization.

6. Explain why the Colonel and the others want to leave London?

7. Explain the argument of Beadley that the world is better off after the comet than it was before.

8. Explain the irony of the blind man Bill finds in Chapter Three, who was blind before the comet.

9. What is revealed about the new use for sighted children and blind women in Chapter Three?

10. What is happening to society at the beginning of Chapter Four, and why?

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