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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Trimming her husband's beard
(d) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch

2. 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) Has an orgasm
(d) Throw a woman over his bed

3. Where does the fire that burns down the asylum begin?
(a) The first ward
(b) The courtyard
(c) The Thug's ward
(d) The lavatory

4. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?
(a) A rock
(b) A metal rod
(c) A blade of glass
(d) A heavy stick

5. What do two men returning from the Thugs warn the first warders not to do?
(a) Talk back
(b) Drop anything
(c) Hide anything
(d) Make any sudden moves

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

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

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

9. Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables?
(a) The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
(b) The First Man and the Nurse
(c) The First Man and the Doctor
(d) The Doctor's Wife and the First Man

10. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?
(a) He clicks his tongue and listens for the echo
(b) He has built a barricade of trash, beds, and feces
(c) He waves a stick back and forth, feeling for intruders
(d) He holds the gun and fires a shot if he hear something

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

12. 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) Holding hands
(c) Grappling for food
(d) Crying

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

14. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?
(a) A group of blind children
(b) A dog
(c) A group of blind people from the grocery
(d) A cat

15. 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 was in quarantine
(c) That she has traveling companions
(d) That she is heading to her house

Short Answer Questions

1. What is stolen from the Chronicler as he types his accounts

2. What pierces a blind man's leg as he searches the same supermarket as the Doctor's Wife?

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

4. Who stops sleeping in the main room of the house after the Man with the Eye Patch's awkward declaration of love?

5. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?

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