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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The First Man
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

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

5. Why does the Girl with Dark Glasses' companion abandon her when she goes blind?
(a) He has paid for their liaison
(b) He does not want to go blind as well
(c) He had not paid for the hotel room
(d) She tells him to do so

6. Which of the following is not a career of an arriving inmate?
(a) Policeman
(b) Taxi driver
(c) Shop clerk
(d) Hotel maid

7. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses want to listen to on the portable radio?
(a) Call-in programs
(b) Religious programs
(c) Music
(d) News

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

9. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?
(a) He pays them off
(b) They do not know his car is stolen
(c) They go blind themselves
(d) They take pity on him, since he is blind

10. Which two people share a moment of forgiveness in Chapter 5?
(a) The Doctor and the Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Thief and the First Man
(c) The Doctor and his Wife
(d) The Thief and the Girl with Dark Glasses

11. To what does a radio commentator compare the blindness epidemic?
(a) An arrow shot from a bow
(b) A house on fire
(c) A slow-moving elephant
(d) A runaway train

12. Of the four corpses that the first ward buries, how many actually slept in the first ward?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Two
(d) None

13. Which of the following is not an item the Doctor's wife packs for quarantine?
(a) Blouses
(b) Pants
(c) Shoes
(d) Food

14. What is the Doctor pretending to look at when his wife wakes up?
(a) The sunrise
(b) A Mirror
(c) Her
(d) The newspaper

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these people is not among those the Girl with Dark Glasses interacted with the day she went blind?

2. What does the Doctor's Wife find in a cupboard in the quarantine?

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

4. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?

5. How does the Doctor know who comes into the quarantine?

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