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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the other people waiting in the Doctor's surgery grow irate?
(a) The air conditioner is broken
(b) They all go blind
(c) The First Man is admitted before them
(d) The Squinting Child gets sick

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

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

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

5. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Thief
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The First Man's Wife

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

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

8. How does the Thief die?
(a) He hangs himself
(b) He bleeds to death
(c) He is shot
(d) He dies from gangrene

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

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

11. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?
(a) Two days
(b) Less than a day
(c) Ten days
(d) One week

12. In the discussion of organizing the first ward, which is not a suggested task to be assigned?
(a) Food distribution
(b) Medical assistance
(c) Sweeping
(d) Bed making

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?

2. Where is quarantine located?

3. Who escorts the Thief home?

4. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?

5. Why does the Thief believe he is in his dire situation?

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