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

2. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?
(a) She says she is blind
(b) She begs an attandant
(c) She pays off the driver
(d) She follows the ambulance

3. Which character urinates in his pants?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Thief
(c) The Squinting Child
(d) The First Man

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

5. Of the four corpses that the first ward buries, how many actually slept in the first ward?
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) None
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

1. What is delivered for lunch?

2. When does the spokesman for the second ward say they will bury their dead?

3. Why do the inmates collecting the food start shouting out the entrance?

4. Why is the Girl with Dark Glasses seeing the Doctor?

5. A crash of what type of vehicle requires the Minister of Transportation to issue releases about the epidemic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Man with the Eye-Patch.

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

5. What does the Doctor do when his Wife tells him that a Man with an Eye-Patch has arrived in the ward?

6. What bit of knowledge does the Thief reveal to the Doctor's Wife on the night of his death? What will he do with this knowledge?

7. By this point, is the dispersal of food effectively organized by Chapter 7?

8. What is the Thief's reaction to the suggestion that the Doctor be leader of the quarantined inmates?

9. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?

10. How does the Thief suffer an injury?

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