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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses bring to the quarantine in her handbag?
(a) A flask
(b) Her eyedrops
(c) A knife
(d) A hand mirror

3. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?
(a) Blind inmates who are sick or elderly
(b) Medical staff
(c) The possibly infected
(d) Family members of the blind

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

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

6. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?
(a) Another Optometrist
(b) No One
(c) His Wife
(d) His Nurse

7. Who escorts the Thief home?
(a) The Man with the Eyepatch
(b) The Police
(c) A Passerby
(d) His Wife

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

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

10. To what does a radio commentator compare the blindness epidemic?
(a) An arrow shot from a bow
(b) A house on fire
(c) A slow-moving elephant
(d) A runaway train

11. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?
(a) She follows the ambulance
(b) She begs an attandant
(c) She says she is blind
(d) She pays off the driver

12. Of the four corpses that the first ward buries, how many actually slept in the first ward?
(a) Two
(b) None
(c) Four
(d) Three

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

14. Why does the Thief leave the First Man's car?
(a) The police arrest him
(b) It runs out of fuel
(c) He has a fit of conscience
(d) He is paranoid of being caught

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the inmates instructed to do after eating meals?

2. Which of the following is not among the rules announced to the inmates?

3. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?

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

5. Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers?

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