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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?
(a) Asking the guards for more food
(b) Calling the police
(c) Asking to join the Thugs
(d) Stealing the food back

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

5. Who is not a part of the group that walks to the city with the Doctor's Wife?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Squinting Child
(c) The Chambermaid
(d) The Doctor

6. Why does the Man with the Eye Patch stop receiving news from his radio?
(a) The announcer goes blind
(b) The radio dies
(c) He has to give the radio to the Thugs
(d) The station stops broadcasting

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why do the soldiers not shoot the blind inmates as they flee the quarantine?
(a) The soldiers are asleep and easily overtaken
(b) The soldiers are all blind
(c) The soldiers have abandoned their post
(d) The soldiers have run out of ammunition

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor's Wife suggest to her husband she will do with the scissors?

2. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?

3. Whose house is furthest away from the asylum?

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

5. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?

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