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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Move in but allow the writer to stay
(b) Give it to the writer permanently
(c) Expel the writer and take it back
(d) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind

2. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Depression
(b) A fever
(c) Blindness
(d) Dysentery

3. Which of these is not a condition the Doctor asks if the First Man has?
(a) Hypertension
(b) Syphillis
(c) Diabetes
(d) Glaucoma

4. To what does a radio commentator compare the blindness epidemic?
(a) A runaway train
(b) A house on fire
(c) An arrow shot from a bow
(d) A slow-moving elephant

5. Where is quarantine located?
(a) A hospital
(b) An abandoned school
(c) A factory
(d) No one knows

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?

2. How does the first ward compare to the others in cleanliness?

3. Why isn't the First Man's wife home?

4. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?

5. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?

(see the answer key)

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