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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Blindness
(b) Depression
(c) Dysentery
(d) A fever

2. How many inmates are shot during the assault on the Thugs' ward?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) None
(d) Four

3. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?
(a) He holds the gun and fires a shot if he hear something
(b) He has built a barricade of trash, beds, and feces
(c) He clicks his tongue and listens for the echo
(d) He waves a stick back and forth, feeling for intruders

4. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?
(a) Street curbs
(b) Storefronts
(c) Alleyways
(d) Abandoned cars

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

6. Which is not an item the Doctor's Wife finds in her larder?
(a) Dried fruit
(b) Honey
(c) Biscuits
(d) A jar of preserves

7. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?
(a) Slaps the Doctor's Wife
(b) Has an orgasm
(c) Throw a woman over his bed
(d) Beg for his life

8. What is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return?
(a) They wrap her in a sheet
(b) They tell the men to bury her
(c) They bury her immediately
(d) They wash her

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

10. Who is the first man in the first ward to protest that the women should not submit to the Thugs?
(a) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) The First Man
(c) The Doctor
(d) No man speaks out

11. Who is reduced to tears by tasting the bottled water?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man
(c) The Man with the Eye Patch
(d) The Squinting Child

12. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Man with the Eye Patch

13. On second glance, what does the Doctor's Wife notice the filthy blind lovers in the hall are doing?
(a) Grappling for food
(b) Crying
(c) Holding hands
(d) Whispering to each other

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

15. At the beginning of Chapter 9, approximately how many internees are in quarantine?
(a) Two hundred and forty
(b) Three hundred and fifty
(c) One hundred and eighty
(d) Three hundred

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?

2. Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables?

3. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?

4. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?

5. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?

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