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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 do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Moves it nearer the open window
(b) Pushes it together with another
(c) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(d) Makes a tent over it with a blanket

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

3. 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

4. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?
(a) The Boy Genius
(b) The Chronicler
(c) The Eyes
(d) The Accountant

5. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?
(a) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

Short Answer Questions

1. What vegetable does the Gaunt Old Woman eat along with her raw rabbit?

2. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?

3. What does the night guard do when the Doctor's Wife sits at the main entrance of the quarantine?

4. How many inmates are shot during the assault on the Thugs' ward?

5. In addition to the gun, what else do the Thugs carry as weapons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the general attitude in the other wards when food stops arriving at the main entrance?

2. How does the Writer go about writing without his sight?

3. What idea does the Doctor's Wife have when it starts raining?

4. What happens to the Old Woman with insomnia in Chapter 11?

5. How does the Doctor's Wife meet the Dog of Tears?

6. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' decision about remaining with the Doctor's Wife?

7. Describe the scene in the Thug's Ward immediately after the Doctor's Wife kills their leader.

8. Describe the Gaunt Old Woman that lives below the Girl with Dark Glasses' parents' apartment.

9. How do the Thugs take control of the food rations?

10. What are the sleeping conditions in quarantine now that all of the beds are full?

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