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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the inmates do immediately after escaping the burning asylum?
(a) They search the guard's post for food.
(b) They group off and head into the city
(c) They huddle together and sleep
(d) They scatter to the surrounding fields to make shelter

3. What does the night guard do when the Doctor's Wife sits at the main entrance of the quarantine?
(a) Shouts at her to get back inside
(b) Fires his gun in the air as a warning
(c) Takes aim on her until she goes back in
(d) Continues sleeping

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

5. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?
(a) Blindness
(b) Apathy
(c) Sadness
(d) Starvation

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

7. With whom does the Girl with Dark Glasses regularly have sex?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Leader of the Thugs
(d) The Man with the Eye Patch

8. What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed?
(a) A photo
(b) Her eyedrops
(c) A watch
(d) A sanitary napkin

9. 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) No man speaks out
(c) The First Man
(d) The Doctor

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

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

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

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

14. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?
(a) Women
(b) Money and valuables
(c) A ward to themselves
(d) Services

15. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?
(a) Beg for his life
(b) Slaps the Doctor's Wife
(c) Throw a woman over his bed
(d) Has an orgasm

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?

2. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?

3. What important item did the Doctor's Wife bring from the asylum?

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

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

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