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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose house is furthest away from the asylum?
(a) The First Man
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor

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

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

4. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?
(a) Her picture of them
(b) A note dictated to the Doctor's Wife
(c) Her necklace
(d) A lock of hair

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

6. 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) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind
(c) Expel the writer and take it back
(d) Move in but allow the writer to stay

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

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

9. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?
(a) The Chambermaid
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) The First Man's Wife

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

11. 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

12. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?
(a) Influenza
(b) Chronic diarrhea
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Cancer

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many containers of food is the first ward given?

2. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?

3. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?

4. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?

5. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?

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