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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is not among the first group of inmates to arrive in quarantine?
(a) The First Man
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Squinting Child
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

3. Which of the following is not a location considered by the government for the quarantine location
(a) A supermarket building
(b) Old military barracks
(c) An old schoolhouse
(d) An abandoned mental hospital

4. What is the doctor's diagnosis to explain the First Man's blindness?
(a) Complications involving diabetes
(b) Stress
(c) None of the above
(d) Retinal injury

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

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

7. Which group is forced to barricade itseld as the quarantine is flooded with new inmates?
(a) The contaminated
(b) The first ward
(c) The second ward
(d) The guards

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

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

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

11. To what animal does the Doctor's Wife compare the blind inmates?
(a) Snakes
(b) Moles
(c) Bats
(d) Dogs

12. 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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to the First Man's aid when the Thief accuses him of causing everyone's blindness?

2. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?

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

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

5. Why is the Girl with Dark Glasses seeing the Doctor?

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