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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?
(a) Clothing
(b) Private property
(c) Monogamy
(d) Private defecation

2. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?
(a) A rock
(b) A metal rod
(c) A heavy stick
(d) A blade of glass

3. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Old Woman with Insomnia

4. In addition to the gun, what else do the Thugs carry as weapons?
(a) Shards of glass
(b) Metal rods
(c) Broom handles
(d) Kitchen utensils

5. Who vomits as a result of the corpse being eaten?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The Squinting Boy
(d) The First Man

6. What does the Doctor's Wife suggest to her husband she will do with the scissors?
(a) Attack the Thugs
(b) Kill herself
(c) She does not know
(d) Trim his beard

7. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?
(a) None of the above
(b) Helplessness
(c) Outrage
(d) Irritation

8. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?
(a) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(b) The Nurse
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

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

10. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind
(b) Expel the writer and take it back
(c) Move in but allow the writer to stay
(d) Give it to the writer permanently

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

12. What is the group doing when the Man with the Eye Patch declares his love?
(a) Discussing their plans for the next day
(b) Listening to records
(c) Reading stories
(d) Dancing

13. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?
(a) Twelve
(b) Fifteen
(c) Ten
(d) Seventeen

14. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?
(a) Telling a story to the Squinting Child
(b) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch
(c) Washing the First Man's Wife
(d) Trimming her husband's beard

15. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses not realize?
(a) Her glasses have been stolen
(b) Her conjunctivitis is gone
(c) She is sleeping in the wrong bed
(d) Her hair has gone white

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?

2. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?

3. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?

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

5. What is eating a man's corpse in a city square?

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