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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man
(c) The Man with the eye patch
(d) The Squinting Boy

2. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?
(a) Urine
(b) Mud
(c) Water
(d) Milk

3. Why does the Thief leave the First Man's car?
(a) He has a fit of conscience
(b) The police arrest him
(c) He is paranoid of being caught
(d) It runs out of fuel

4. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?
(a) She does not pay taxes
(b) He is overwhelmed with blindness cases
(c) She is rude to him
(d) He has gone blind himself

5. With what item does the First Man cut himself?
(a) Loose Nail in the Floor
(b) Kitchen Knife
(c) Newspaper
(d) Broken vase

6. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Thief
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

7. What does the Doctor's Wife find in a cupboard in the quarantine?
(a) Old towels and tissue paper
(b) Tins of milk
(c) Strait-jackets
(d) A dead animal

8. What object is not in the painting one man saw before going blind?
(a) A conch shell
(b) A seagull
(c) A naked woman
(d) Flowers

9. What does the Doctor request of the soldiers?
(a) Antibiotics
(b) More food
(c) Pain killers
(d) Clean water

10. Which of these people is not among those the Girl with Dark Glasses interacted with the day she went blind?
(a) A Waitress
(b) The Doctor
(c) A Tourist
(d) A Taxi Driver

11. What is delivered for lunch?
(a) Milk and cheese sandwiches
(b) Tea with biscuits
(c) Water and cold cut meat
(d) Coffee and bread with margarine

12. To what part of a car does the Doctor compare the eyes?
(a) Carburetor
(b) Headlight
(c) Bumper
(d) Engine

13. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Five

14. Which of the following is not among the rules announced to the inmates?
(a) Inmates must bury their own dead
(b) Food will be delivered three times daily
(c) Lights will remain on at all times
(d) The inmates are forbidden to organize

15. Who comes to the First Man's aid when the Thief accuses him of causing everyone's blindness?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor
(d) No One

Short Answer Questions

1. Who severely wounds the Thief?

2. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. What is provided to the inmates for breakfast?

4. What is the doctor's diagnosis to explain the First Man's blindness?

5. How does the Doctor know who comes into the quarantine?

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