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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?
(a) Pristine
(b) Demolished and filthy
(c) Cluttered but sanitary
(d) Dusty but intact

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

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

4. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Pushes it together with another
(b) Makes a tent over it with a blanket
(c) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(d) Moves it nearer the open window

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

6. How many containers of food is the first ward given?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Seven
(d) Three

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

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

10. What important item did the Doctor's Wife bring from the asylum?
(a) A lighter
(b) Her keys
(c) The scissors
(d) A compass

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

12. Which two characters are given sneakers rather than boots by the Doctor's Wife?
(a) The Man with the Eye Patch and the Squinting Child
(b) The Doctor and the Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Man with the Eye-Patch and the First Man
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses and the First Man's Wife

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter 9, approximately how many internees are in quarantine?

3. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?

4. What do two men returning from the Thugs warn the first warders not to do?

5. With whom does the Girl with Dark Glasses regularly have sex?

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