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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Doctor request of the soldiers?
(a) Antibiotics
(b) More food
(c) Pain killers
(d) Clean water

2. What does the Doctor do when he discovers he is blind?
(a) Calls the hospital
(b) Wakes his wife
(c) Screams
(d) Tries to go back to sleep

3. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Bury their dead
(b) Clean the toilets
(c) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7
(d) Elect a ward leader

4. In the discussion of organizing the first ward, which is not a suggested task to be assigned?
(a) Food distribution
(b) Bed making
(c) Medical assistance
(d) Sweeping

5. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?
(a) She follows the ambulance
(b) She says she is blind
(c) She pays off the driver
(d) She begs an attandant

6. What are the inmates instructed to do after eating meals?
(a) Wash all containers and utensils
(b) Call to the guard post for intructions
(c) Leave all containers at the front door for pick-up
(d) Burn all containers and leftovers

7. Which of these people is not among those the Girl with Dark Glasses interacted with the day she went blind?
(a) A Taxi Driver
(b) A Waitress
(c) The Doctor
(d) A Tourist

8. How many inmates are ordered to take away the Thief's body?
(a) Six
(b) Eight
(c) Four
(d) Two

9. Why does the Thief leave the First Man's car?
(a) He has a fit of conscience
(b) It runs out of fuel
(c) The police arrest him
(d) He is paranoid of being caught

10. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A bouquet of flowers
(b) A hand-fan
(c) A mop
(d) A guitar

11. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?
(a) The Hotel Clerk
(b) The Man with the eye patch
(c) The Thief's Wife
(d) The Sergeant

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

13. How does the Thief die?
(a) He bleeds to death
(b) He dies from gangrene
(c) He is shot
(d) He hangs himself

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

15. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) His Wife
(d) The Thief

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not among the rules announced to the inmates?

2. When does the spokesman for the second ward say they will bury their dead?

3. To what animal does the Doctor's Wife compare the blind inmates?

4. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?

5. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?

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