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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?
(a) She does not pay taxes
(b) She is rude to him
(c) He has gone blind himself
(d) He is overwhelmed with blindness cases

3. Why isn't the First Man's wife home?
(a) She is shopping
(b) She is at her book club
(c) She is at work
(d) He is unmarried

4. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Squinting Boy
(c) The First Man
(d) The Man with the eye patch

5. What is the doctor's diagnosis to explain the First Man's blindness?
(a) None of the above
(b) Stress
(c) Complications involving diabetes
(d) Retinal injury

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?

3. Which of the following characters are not in the Doctor's waiting room?

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

5. Which of the following is not an item the Doctor's wife packs for quarantine?

(see the answer key)

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