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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many containers of food is the first ward given?
(a) Three
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Seven

2. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?
(a) Sadness
(b) Apathy
(c) Blindness
(d) Starvation

3. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?
(a) Irritation
(b) Helplessness
(c) Outrage
(d) None of the above

4. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Nurse
(d) The Pharmacist's Assistant

5. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?
(a) Her shoe
(b) A clump of her hair
(c) Her shirt
(d) Her bag of groceries

6. What does the Doctor's Wife hide in the Gaunt Old Woman's garden before leaving?
(a) A dead hen
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses' key
(c) The group's old clothes
(d) Her scissors

7. What is the first useful item that the Doctor's Wife finds in the grocery storeroom?
(a) Matches
(b) Chorizo sausage
(c) Bread
(d) Bottled water

8. What is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return?
(a) They bury her immediately
(b) They tell the men to bury her
(c) They wrap her in a sheet
(d) They wash her

9. Who takes control of the Leader's gun?
(a) An unnamed woman of the second ward
(b) The Chronicler
(c) An unnamed Thug
(d) The Doctor's Wife

10. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?
(a) She is half-eaten by animals
(b) She has lost a lot of water in the sun
(c) She has decomposed substantially
(d) She did not eat in her last week of life

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

12. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?
(a) A group of blind children
(b) A group of blind people from the grocery
(c) A cat
(d) A dog

13. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Chronicler
(b) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(c) The Doctor
(d) The First Man

14. How many people are living in the First Man's apartment?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Three
(d) Two

15. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Squinting Child
(d) The Man with the Black Eye Patch

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is reduced to tears by tasting the bottled water?

2. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?

3. What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed?

4. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?

5. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?

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