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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 a career of an arriving inmate?
(a) Shop clerk
(b) Taxi driver
(c) Hotel maid
(d) Policeman

2. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A guitar
(b) A bouquet of flowers
(c) A hand-fan
(d) A mop

3. What has run out by the end of the chapter?
(a) Beds
(b) Toilet paper
(c) Blankets
(d) None of the above

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

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

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

7. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Elect a ward leader
(b) Bury their dead
(c) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7
(d) Clean the toilets

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

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

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

11. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
(a) His Wife
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Thief

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the First Man when he goes blind?

2. How many inmates are ordered to take away the Thief's body?

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

4. Which character urinates in his pants?

5. What do the inmates do before burying their dead?

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