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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is eating a man's corpse in a city square?
(a) A group of crows
(b) Maggots
(c) A group of blind people
(d) A pack of dogs

2. What do two men returning from the Thugs warn the first warders not to do?
(a) Make any sudden moves
(b) Drop anything
(c) Talk back
(d) Hide anything

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

4. What information - beside the fact that she can see - does the Doctor's Wife not volunteer to the man she talks to on the street?
(a) That she is heading to her house
(b) That she was in quarantine
(c) That she is not from the area
(d) That she has traveling companions

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

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

7. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?
(a) The loudspeaker announces the quarantine rules
(b) The soldiers deliver food rations
(c) The Doctor's Wife falls asleep
(d) The Doctor regains his sight

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 wash her
(d) They bury her immediately

9. What does the night guard do when the Doctor's Wife sits at the main entrance of the quarantine?
(a) Fires his gun in the air as a warning
(b) Takes aim on her until she goes back in
(c) Continues sleeping
(d) Shouts at her to get back inside

10. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Influenza
(c) Chronic diarrhea
(d) Cancer

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

12. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?
(a) A group of blind people from the grocery
(b) A cat
(c) A dog
(d) A group of blind children

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

14. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?
(a) The Squinting Child
(b) The Man with the Black Eye Patch
(c) The Doctor
(d) The First Man

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?

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

3. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?

4. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?

5. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?

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