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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man
(c) The Man with the Eye Patch
(d) The Doctor

2. What is delivered for lunch?
(a) Tea with biscuits
(b) Coffee and bread with margarine
(c) Milk and cheese sandwiches
(d) Water and cold cut meat

3. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?
(a) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) The Doctor

4. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?
(a) Seventeen
(b) Twelve
(c) Fifteen
(d) Ten

5. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?
(a) The Doctor's assistant
(b) The man that slept with the Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Thief's wife
(d) The woman near the First Man's car when he went blind

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is not an item the Doctor's Wife finds in her larder?

2. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?

3. What is the one advantage of having a completely full first ward?

4. Where does the fire that burns down the asylum begin?

5. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?

(see the answer key)

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