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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What item does the First Man accidentally leave with the Thief?
(a) His keys
(b) His glasses
(c) His briefcase
(d) His raincoat

3. Why does the Thief believe he is in his dire situation?
(a) He helped the First Man home
(b) He molested the Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) He stole the First Man's car
(d) He allowed himself to be taken to quarantine

4. Why do two inmates in the first ward fight?
(a) One has been hording food
(b) One took the other's watch
(c) One took the other's bed
(d) One slept with the other's wife

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

6. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Man with the eye patch
(c) The Squinting Boy
(d) The First Man

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

8. Who severely wounds the Thief?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) A Soldier

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

10. What action does the First Man take, forgetting that he has gone blind?
(a) Looks through the peephole of the elevator
(b) Turns on the light in his apartment
(c) Turns on the television
(d) Opens the freezer and look for something to eat

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?

4. What does the doctor step on on his way to the lavatory?

5. What does the Doctor do when he discovers he is blind?

(see the answer keys)

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