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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the inmates do to pass the time at night?
(a) Arm-wrestle
(b) Tell stories
(c) Play word games
(d) Have sex

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

4. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?
(a) The woman near the First Man's car when he went blind
(b) The Doctor's assistant
(c) The man that slept with the Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Thief's wife

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. What object is not in the painting one man saw before going blind?
(a) A seagull
(b) Flowers
(c) A naked woman
(d) A conch shell

9. Which of these people is not among those the Girl with Dark Glasses interacted with the day she went blind?
(a) The Doctor
(b) A Taxi Driver
(c) A Waitress
(d) A Tourist

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

11. Which of the following is not something that the sergeant compares to the blind internees?
(a) Rag dolls
(b) Blind bats
(c) Rabid dogs
(d) Gangrenous limbs

12. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Thief

13. What does the First Man use to dress his wounded hand?
(a) A shirt
(b) A handkerchief
(c) Gauze
(d) A towel

14. What rumor about the government is going around?
(a) A new one is being formed
(b) The government has been overthrown by a coup
(c) The President has gone blind
(d) The Minister of Health has resigned

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?

2. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?

3. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?

4. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?

5. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?

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