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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 the Girl with Dark Glasses want to listen to on the portable radio?
(a) Music
(b) Religious programs
(c) Call-in programs
(d) News

2. Who is forced to assist in the goading forward of new internees?
(a) The officers at the gate
(b) The transport drivers
(c) Internees of the second ward
(d) Local homeowners

3. Before the soldiers provide a spade, what do the inmates use to try to bury the Thief?
(a) Their hands
(b) An iron bar
(c) Plastic spoons
(d) A dustbin lid

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Doctor describe the whiteness of First Man's blindness?

2. What does the Ministry of Health require of the Doctor?

3. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?

4. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?

5. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the final moments of the Thief's life.

2. Describe the Girl with Dark Glasses' attitude toward her work.

3. Describe the humiliation that occurs when the Doctor tries to use the toilet in Chapter 6.

4. Describe what happens when the Doctor's Wife wakes up in the morning.

5. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?

6. Does the First Man trust the man who comes to his aid after he goes blind?

7. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?

8. Describe the painting the Man with the Eye-Patch mentions at the end of Chapter 8.

9. How are conditions in quarantine affected as more inmates arrive throughout Chapter 5?

10. What is the Sergeant's attitude toward the internees?

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