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

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

3. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Meat.

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

5. What has Bill decided by the end of Chapter Two?
(a) That he wants to marry and have children.
(b) That he wants to own a triffid.
(c) That he doesn't want to live in London anymore.
(d) That he doesn't want to work with triffids anymore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beadley encourage the group they can do?

2. What feeling does Bill have at the end of Chapter Three?

3. How does Bill believe the triffids came to be?

4. What is the function of the Colonel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the difference between Josella's view of triffids and Bill's. Why are they do drastically different?

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

3. What are the potential uses of satellites, according to Bill?

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

5. Give a brief explanation of the various speculations pertaining to the coming of the triffids.

6. Describe the events of the night of May 7th, in terms of what the narrator notes is said to have occurred, according to history books.

7. Explain how the seeds of the triffid came to spread across the world, according to the story by Bill of Umberto Palanguez.

8. Do you think the narrator is right to leave the blind group in the lobby of the hospital, knowing they cannot see to get out?

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

10. Why does Bill not kill the man holding Josella captive?

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