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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?
(a) She does not pay taxes
(b) He has gone blind himself
(c) She is rude to him
(d) He is overwhelmed with blindness cases

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

3. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?
(a) Mud
(b) Milk
(c) Water
(d) Urine

4. Who is forced to assist in the goading forward of new internees?
(a) Internees of the second ward
(b) The officers at the gate
(c) The transport drivers
(d) Local homeowners

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

6. Where is quarantine located?
(a) An abandoned school
(b) No one knows
(c) A factory
(d) A hospital

7. What do the soldiers pour on the blind Thief's blood?
(a) Hot Water
(b) Sulphuric Acid
(c) Ammonia
(d) Sawdust

8. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?
(a) Three
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Two

9. How does the first ward compare to the others in cleanliness?
(a) It is the cleanest
(b) It is the filthiest
(c) All wards are equally filthy by this point
(d) It is senond only to the second ward in terms of filthiness

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

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

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

13. What does the doctor step on on his way to the lavatory?
(a) Feces
(b) A puddle of blood
(c) Spilled food
(d) A sleeping inmate

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses bring to the quarantine in her handbag?

2. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?

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

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

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

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