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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters are not in the Doctor's waiting room?
(a) The Man with the Eyepatch
(b) The Girl With Dark Glasses
(c) The Thief
(d) The Squinting Child

2. What does the Doctor's Wife find in a cupboard in the quarantine?
(a) Strait-jackets
(b) Old towels and tissue paper
(c) Tins of milk
(d) A dead animal

3. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?
(a) His Nurse
(b) His Wife
(c) No One
(d) Another Optometrist

4. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?
(a) Medical staff
(b) Family members of the blind
(c) Blind inmates who are sick or elderly
(d) The possibly infected

5. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses bring to the quarantine in her handbag?
(a) Her eyedrops
(b) A knife
(c) A hand mirror
(d) A flask

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?

2. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?

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

4. What do the inmates do to pass the time at night?

5. Why do the other people waiting in the Doctor's surgery grow irate?

(see the answer key)

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