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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is discovered by the Thug's after they make a full search of the wards for valuables?
(a) A few rings and watches
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch's radio
(c) A store of rare coins
(d) Nothing

2. 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 sardine tin lid
(c) A rotten fish bone
(d) A stray nail

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

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

5. 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 tell the men to bury her
(c) They bury her immediately
(d) They wrap her in a sheet

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

7. 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

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

9. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?
(a) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Chambermaid
(d) The First Man's Wife

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

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

12. 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 Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The First Man
(d) The Doctor

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Man with the Eye Patch relay the news from his radio?

2. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?

3. How many inmates are shot during the assault on the Thugs' ward?

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

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

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