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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who stops sleeping in the main room of the house after the Man with the Eye Patch's awkward declaration of love?
(a) The Man with the Eye Patch
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The dog of tears
(d) The Squinting Child

4. 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) Shouts at her to get back inside
(d) Continues sleeping

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

6. Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables?
(a) The First Man and the Doctor
(b) The First Man and the Nurse
(c) The Doctor's Wife and the First Man
(d) The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife

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

8. 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 waves a stick back and forth, feeling for intruders
(d) He clicks his tongue and listens for the echo

9. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?
(a) A lock of hair
(b) Her necklace
(c) Her picture of them
(d) A note dictated to the Doctor's Wife

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

11. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?
(a) Her shoe
(b) Her shirt
(c) Her bag of groceries
(d) A clump of her hair

12. 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 has traveling companions
(b) That she is heading to her house
(c) That she is not from the area
(d) That she was in quarantine

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

14. What is the first useful item that the Doctor's Wife finds in the grocery storeroom?
(a) Bottled water
(b) Bread
(c) Matches
(d) Chorizo sausage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stolen from the Chronicler as he types his accounts

2. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?

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

4. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?

5. What item does the Doctor's Wife find in her purse that could be used as a weapon?

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