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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?
(a) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Doctor's Wife

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

3. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?
(a) Abandoned cars
(b) Street curbs
(c) Storefronts
(d) Alleyways

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

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

6. Who does not bathe in the rain?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) The Old Man with the Eye Patch

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

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

9. Where does the Doctor's Wife leave her traveling companions?
(a) An abandoned school building
(b) Her house
(c) An open shop
(d) A playground

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

11. What item does the Doctor's Wife find in her purse that could be used as a weapon?
(a) A nail file
(b) A zippo lighter
(c) Scissors
(d) A letter opener

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

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

14. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?
(a) The loudspeaker announces the quarantine rules
(b) The soldiers deliver food rations
(c) The Doctor's Wife falls asleep
(d) The Doctor regains his sight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?

2. 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?

3. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?

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

5. The Doctor's Wife reasons that she killed another man in addition to the Leader of the Thugs. Where does she stab him?

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