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Blindness Quiz

José Saramago
This Study Guide consists of approximately 83 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Blindness.

Blindness Quiz

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1)

Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers? (from Chapter 6)

The First Man
The Doctor
The Girl with Dark Glasses
The Doctor's Wife
2)

Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light? (from Chapter 16)

She has decomposed substantially
She is half-eaten by animals
She has lost a lot of water in the sun
She did not eat in her last week of life
3)

Why does the Doctor think his Wife has gone blind when he wakes up? (from Chapter 7)

She is crying
She has fallen in the filth
She is sleeping in the wrong bed
She is staring straight ahead
4)

To what animal does an anonymous inmate compare her fellow internees at the very end of Chapter 6? (from Chapter 6)

Monkees
Bees
Dogs
Pigs
5)

Who is forced to assist in the goading forward of new internees? (from Chapter 7)

The officers at the gate
Internees of the second ward
The transport drivers
Local homeowners
6)

Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food? (from Chapter 9)

The Doctor's Wife
The Girl with Dark Glasses
The Man with the Eye-Patch
The Doctor
7)

What does the Gaunt Old Woman clutch to in her rigor-mortised hand? (from Chapter 16)

A dead rabbit
A picture of her family
A cabbage
Her key
8)

What frightens the dog of tears? (from Chapter 17)

Other dogs
Rain
Death
The blind nomads
9)

What rumor about the government is going around? (from Chapter 8)

The President has gone blind
The Minister of Health has resigned
The government has been overthrown by a coup
A new one is being formed
10)

What did the doctor's wife forget to do before going to sleep? (from Chapter 7)

Kiss her husband
Remove her filthy shoes
Wind her watch
Go to the toilet
11)

The Doctor's Wife reasons that she killed another man in addition to the Leader of the Thugs. Where does she stab him? (from Chapter 12)

In his temple
In his stomach
In his neck
In his chest
12)

Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables? (from Chapter 9)

The First Man and the Doctor
The First Man and the Nurse
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
The Doctor's Wife and the First Man
13)

In the discussion of organizing the first ward, which is not a suggested task to be assigned? (from Chapter 7)

Food distribution
Medical assistance
Sweeping
Bed making
14)

What important item did the Doctor's Wife bring from the asylum? (from Chapter 13)

Her keys
A lighter
A compass
The scissors
15)

What has run out by the end of the chapter? (from Chapter 6)

Blankets
Beds
None of the above
Toilet paper
16)

Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes? (from Chapter 11)

The Girl with Dark Glasses
The Old Woman with Insomnia
The First Man's Wife
The Doctor's Wife
17)

What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions? (from Chapter 13)

A dog
A cat
A group of blind people from the grocery
A group of blind children
18)

What does the Doctor's Wife suggest to her husband she will do with the scissors? (from Chapter 10)

She does not know
Kill herself
Trim his beard
Attack the Thugs
19)

Who does not bathe in the rain? (from Chapter 15)

The Girl with Dark Glasses
The Old Man with the Eye Patch
The Doctor's Wife
The First Man's Wife
20)

What did the Doctor's Wife feel for her husband when she saw him having sex with the Girl with Dark Glasses? (from Chapter 17)

Anger
Pity
Jealousy
Arousal
21)

What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8? (from Chapter 8)

A mop
A bouquet of flowers
A hand-fan
A guitar
22)

Who is the first man in the first ward to protest that the women should not submit to the Thugs? (from Chapter 11)

The First Man
The Man with the Eye-Patch
No man speaks out
The Doctor
23)

What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed? (from Chapter 9)

A photo
Her eyedrops
A sanitary napkin
A watch
24)

What is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return? (from Chapter 11)

They tell the men to bury her
They bury her immediately
They wash her
They wrap her in a sheet
25)

What does the doctor step on on his way to the lavatory? (from Chapter 6)

Feces
A sleeping inmate
A puddle of blood
Spilled food
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