Blindness Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Blindness Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?

2. What information - beside the fact that she can see - does the Doctor's Wife not volunteer to the man she talks to on the street?

3. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?

4. Who does not bathe in the rain?

5. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Doctor's principle argument for now trying to stop his wife from going to the Thugs' ward?

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

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

5. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find the Gaunt Old Woman when they approach her building?

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

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

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

9. What plan does the Doctor's Wife and her band of companions develop after the asylum burns down?

10. What is the result of the other wards having given the Thugs all their valuables at once?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a character arc for the Doctor. As a figure of esteem in the realm of vision before the epidemic, how does he become a figure of scorn after. Citing examples form his time in quarantine, map out his descent from control to helplessness. In what ways does he occasionally reassert his control over life?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the function of water in the novel. Write three body paragraphs about three instances in the novel when water plays an active role in the story. Be sure to write about its function both as a narrative device and as a symbol. Sum up Saramago's use of water as a symbol.

Essay Topic 3

The beginning of the novel is marked by a sense of helplessness and shame associated with the inability to see. Explore the unifying embarrassment characters feel in these chapters through the following:

Part 1) How would you describe the character of the First Man? Though we do not know anything of him prior to going blind, does he seem like a man used to asking for help? How does he respond to being helped home by the Thief and stumbling around his apartment?

Part 2) In what state are both the Thief and the Girl with Dark Glasses when they go blind? What - in both of their lives - are they hiding from most of the world which is impossible to hide when they are in this helpless state?

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