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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not among the rules announced to the inmates?
(a) Inmates must bury their own dead
(b) Food will be delivered three times daily
(c) The inmates are forbidden to organize
(d) Lights will remain on at all times

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

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

4. Approximately how many new blind internees arrive at quarantine in Chapter 7?
(a) Two hundred
(b) Three hundred
(c) One hundred and fifty
(d) Eighty

5. What do the inmates do before burying their dead?
(a) Administer last rights
(b) Sleep
(c) Mop the central hallway
(d) Eat lunch

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

7. What aggravates the Doctor in his call with the Ministry of Health?
(a) A constant busy signal
(b) A rude operator
(c) A long automated message
(d) A bad connection

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

9. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?
(a) The Man with the eye patch
(b) The Squinting Boy
(c) The First Man
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

10. Why is the Girl with Dark Glasses seeing the Doctor?
(a) Cataracts
(b) Partial Blindness
(c) Conjunctivitis
(d) Glaucoma

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

12. What valuable piece of information does the Doctor's Wife take from the radio?
(a) The news of a new govenment
(b) The temperture and weather forecast
(c) The time
(d) An update on the number of blind cases reported

13. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' profession?
(a) Musician
(b) Sales Clerk
(c) Prostitute
(d) Teacher

14. With what item does the First Man cut himself?
(a) Newspaper
(b) Kitchen Knife
(c) Broken vase
(d) Loose Nail in the Floor

15. Which of the following is not something that the sergeant compares to the blind internees?
(a) Rag dolls
(b) Gangrenous limbs
(c) Rabid dogs
(d) Blind bats

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. In what state is the Girl with Dark Glasses when she goes blind?

3. Which of the following is not a career of an arriving inmate?

4. Which of these is not a condition the Doctor asks if the First Man has?

5. What did the doctor's wife forget to do before going to sleep?

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