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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What pierces a blind man's leg as he searches the same supermarket as the Doctor's Wife?
(a) A rotten fish bone
(b) A stray nail
(c) A sardine tin lid
(d) A splinter of glass

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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

9. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?
(a) Her shoe
(b) Her bag of groceries
(c) A clump of her hair
(d) Her shirt

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

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

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

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

14. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(b) Pushes it together with another
(c) Makes a tent over it with a blanket
(d) Moves it nearer the open window

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?

2. Which two characters are given sneakers rather than boots by the Doctor's Wife?

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

4. What item does the Doctor's Wife find in her purse that could be used as a weapon?

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

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