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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Man with the Eye Patch relay the news from his radio?
(a) He does not tell the others
(b) He makes three summary announcements a day
(c) He passes it bed to bed like a game of Telephone
(d) He tell is to the Doctor's Wife, who passes it on

2. How many people are living in the First Man's apartment?
(a) Three
(b) Two
(c) Five
(d) Four

3. What does the Gaunt Old Woman clutch to in her rigor-mortised hand?
(a) A picture of her family
(b) Her key
(c) A dead rabbit
(d) A cabbage

4. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?
(a) Sadness
(b) Blindness
(c) Starvation
(d) Apathy

5. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?
(a) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Chambermaid
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

6. Where does the fire that burns down the asylum begin?
(a) The first ward
(b) The Thug's ward
(c) The lavatory
(d) The courtyard

7. Who does not bathe in the rain?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Old Man with the Eye Patch
(d) The Doctor's Wife

8. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?
(a) The Chronicler
(b) The Accountant
(c) The Boy Genius
(d) The Eyes

9. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?
(a) She has decomposed substantially
(b) She is half-eaten by animals
(c) She has lost a lot of water in the sun
(d) She did not eat in her last week of life

10. What does the Doctor's Wife hide in the Gaunt Old Woman's garden before leaving?
(a) Her scissors
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses' key
(c) The group's old clothes
(d) A dead hen

11. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?
(a) None
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) One

12. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(b) The Doctor
(c) The First Man
(d) The Chronicler

13. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(b) Pushes it together with another
(c) Makes a tent over it with a blanket
(d) Moves it nearer the open window

14. What is discovered by the Thug's after they make a full search of the wards for valuables?
(a) Nothing
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch's radio
(c) A few rings and watches
(d) A store of rare coins

15. Approximately how many Thugs have taken control of the fifth ward?
(a) Five
(b) Ten
(c) Twenty
(d) Thirty

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?

2. Who is not a part of the group that walks to the city with the Doctor's Wife?

3. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?

4. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?

5. What is the first useful item that the Doctor's Wife finds in the grocery storeroom?

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