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

2. What does Bill eventually see in the darkness?
(a) Answering headlights.
(b) An answering light.
(c) An answering fire.
(d) An answering smoke signal.

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

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

5. What does Coker believe Miss Durrant will do?
(a) Find a lover.
(b) Leave Tynsham.
(c) Run Tynsham into the ground.
(d) Seduce the priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Joan and Ted?

2. Who does Dennis find in the village?

3. What does Dennis learn to help him in the future?

4. What does Bill notice is attracted to the farm?

5. What happens when Bill drives too fast in the small town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Coker came to remain sighted.

2. Describe the scene with the man in the inn at Steeple Honey.

3. Explain what Bill finds at Tynsham.

4. Explain Bill's argument that an immediate need for harvest is not necessary.

5. Explain Coker's argument about why the young woman at Tynsham is at fault for not getting the lights back on.

6. What was Coker's response to Miss Durrant's chastising of his brutal methods at University Tower?

7. Explain Josella's fears about her wedding.

8. Explain some of the mishaps that befall Bill as he journey's to find Josella.

9. Describe what happens to Bill at the beginning of Chapter Eight, in terms of how he is kidnapped.

10. Describe Shirning Farm.

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