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

2. Who comes to the First Man's aid when the Thief accuses him of causing everyone's blindness?
(a) No One
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Doctor

3. When does the spokesman for the second ward say they will bury their dead?
(a) Tomorrow
(b) Never
(c) After dinner
(d) Overnight

4. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?
(a) Black
(b) Static
(c) Flashing Light
(d) White

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

6. 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

7. What is delivered for lunch?
(a) Tea with biscuits
(b) Coffee and bread with margarine
(c) Milk and cheese sandwiches
(d) Water and cold cut meat

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

9. To what animal does an anonymous inmate compare her fellow internees at the very end of Chapter 6?
(a) Pigs
(b) Dogs
(c) Monkees
(d) Bees

10. What does the First Man use to dress his wounded hand?
(a) A shirt
(b) A towel
(c) Gauze
(d) A handkerchief

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

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

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

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?

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

3. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?

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

5. Why do the inmates collecting the food start shouting out the entrance?

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