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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Thief
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

3. Which group is forced to barricade itseld as the quarantine is flooded with new inmates?
(a) The first ward
(b) The guards
(c) The contaminated
(d) The second ward

4. Why do two inmates in the first ward fight?
(a) One took the other's bed
(b) One slept with the other's wife
(c) One took the other's watch
(d) One has been hording food

5. What is provided to the inmates for breakfast?
(a) Rolls and Coffee
(b) Vegetables and Juice
(c) Biscuits and Milk
(d) Bread and Water

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

7. What is the problem with the food at lunch?
(a) There is not enough of it
(b) It is uncooked
(c) It has spoiled
(d) It never arrives

8. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?
(a) Ten days
(b) One week
(c) Less than a day
(d) Two days

9. What item does the First Man accidentally leave with the Thief?
(a) His briefcase
(b) His keys
(c) His glasses
(d) His raincoat

10. What does the manager of the hotel do when the Girl with Dark Glasses goes blind?
(a) Refunds her money
(b) Removes her from the premises
(c) Calls an ambulance
(d) Politely ignores her

11. Why does the Doctor think his Wife has gone blind when he wakes up?
(a) She is crying
(b) She is sleeping in the wrong bed
(c) She has fallen in the filth
(d) She is staring straight ahead

12. Before the soldiers provide a spade, what do the inmates use to try to bury the Thief?
(a) Their hands
(b) A dustbin lid
(c) Plastic spoons
(d) An iron bar

13. What does the Ministry of Health require of the Doctor?
(a) His consultation
(b) His equipment
(c) His medical files
(d) His eyes for analysis

14. What action does the First Man take, forgetting that he has gone blind?
(a) Turns on the television
(b) Opens the freezer and look for something to eat
(c) Turns on the light in his apartment
(d) Looks through the peephole of the elevator

15. Who escorts the Thief home?
(a) The Police
(b) The Man with the Eyepatch
(c) His Wife
(d) A Passerby

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?

3. In the discussion of organizing the first ward, which is not a suggested task to be assigned?

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

5. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?

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