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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A hand-fan
(b) A guitar
(c) A bouquet of flowers
(d) A mop

2. How do the inmates find their way back to the dormitory after picking up the food?
(a) A rope of blankets leading back
(b) Counting the paces along the wall
(c) A human chain formed from the dormitory to the food
(d) A person calls a signal from the dormitory

3. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?
(a) Family members of the blind
(b) The possibly infected
(c) Medical staff
(d) Blind inmates who are sick or elderly

4. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?
(a) Personally deliver their blind to quarantine locations
(b) Keep their blind indoors
(c) KIll their blind immediately
(d) Burn the belongings of any blind family members

5. What is the one advantage of having a completely full first ward?
(a) More people will share in the cleaning
(b) No more people will be arriving
(c) Division of shifts to guard the door
(d) A larger group to collect more food rations

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do two inmates in the first ward fight?

2. What action does the First Man take, forgetting that he has gone blind?

3. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?

4. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?

5. Which of the following is not something that the sergeant compares to the blind internees?

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