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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 Doctor think his Wife has gone blind when he wakes up?
(a) She is crying
(b) She has fallen in the filth
(c) She is sleeping in the wrong bed
(d) She is staring straight ahead

2. Why do the other people waiting in the Doctor's surgery grow irate?
(a) They all go blind
(b) The air conditioner is broken
(c) The First Man is admitted before them
(d) The Squinting Child gets sick

3. Which two people share a moment of forgiveness in Chapter 5?
(a) The Doctor and the Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Doctor and his Wife
(c) The Thief and the First Man
(d) The Thief and the Girl with Dark Glasses

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

5. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?
(a) Less than a day
(b) One week
(c) Two days
(d) Ten days

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the First Man accidentally leave with the Thief?

2. To what animal does the Doctor's Wife compare the blind inmates?

3. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?

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

5. What aggravates the Doctor in his call with the Ministry of Health?

Short Essay Questions

1. What appears to be the pattern for the spread of blindness in the novel?

2. What is the Doctor's Wife's reaction to her husbands hypothesis about his blindness?

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

4. How does the Man with the Eye-Patch describe the state of the outside world?

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

6. Does the Doctor give up on the case of blindness in the First Man?

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

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

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

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

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