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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What vegetable does the Gaunt Old Woman eat along with her raw rabbit?
(a) Turnips
(b) Spinach
(c) Carrots
(d) Cabbage

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

4. Who takes control of the Leader's gun?
(a) An unnamed Thug
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) An unnamed woman of the second ward
(d) The Chronicler

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

6. What does the Doctor's Wife hide in the Gaunt Old Woman's garden before leaving?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses' key
(b) The group's old clothes
(c) A dead hen
(d) Her scissors

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

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

9. 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) Washing the First Man's Wife
(c) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch
(d) Trimming her husband's beard

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

11. When the Doctor's Wife gets out of bed, what does she choose not to put on?
(a) Robe
(b) Glasses
(c) Nightgown
(d) Shoes

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

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

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

15. What pierces a blind man's leg as he searches the same supermarket as the Doctor's Wife?
(a) A splinter of glass
(b) A rotten fish bone
(c) A stray nail
(d) A sardine tin lid

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the gun, what else do the Thugs carry as weapons?

2. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?

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

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

5. What is the group doing when the Man with the Eye Patch declares his love?

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