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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Expel the writer and take it back
(b) Give it to the writer permanently
(c) Move in but allow the writer to stay
(d) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind

2. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?
(a) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) Washing the First Man's Wife
(c) Trimming her husband's beard
(d) Telling a story to the Squinting Child

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

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

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

6. What is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return?
(a) They bury her immediately
(b) They wrap her in a sheet
(c) They tell the men to bury her
(d) They wash her

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

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

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

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

11. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses not realize?
(a) Her conjunctivitis is gone
(b) Her hair has gone white
(c) Her glasses have been stolen
(d) She is sleeping in the wrong bed

12. What is stolen from the Chronicler as he types his accounts
(a) A piece of bread
(b) His inkstrips
(c) A cup of cold coffee
(d) His watch

13. How does the Man with the Eye Patch relay the news from his radio?
(a) He passes it bed to bed like a game of Telephone
(b) He tell is to the Doctor's Wife, who passes it on
(c) He makes three summary announcements a day
(d) He does not tell the others

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?

2. What does the night guard do when the Doctor's Wife sits at the main entrance of the quarantine?

3. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?

4. Who is not a part of the group that walks to the city with the Doctor's Wife?

5. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?

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