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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?
(a) Keep their blind indoors
(b) Personally deliver their blind to quarantine locations
(c) KIll their blind immediately
(d) Burn the belongings of any blind family members

2. A crash of what type of vehicle requires the Minister of Transportation to issue releases about the epidemic?
(a) A bus
(b) An airplane
(c) A train
(d) A series of cars

3. What is delivered for lunch?
(a) Tea with biscuits
(b) Water and cold cut meat
(c) Coffee and bread with margarine
(d) Milk and cheese sandwiches

4. What do the inmates do to pass the time at night?
(a) Have sex
(b) Tell stories
(c) Play word games
(d) Arm-wrestle

5. Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The First Man
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor's Wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Girl with Dark Glasses' companion abandon her when she goes blind?

2. Which group is forced to barricade itseld as the quarantine is flooded with new inmates?

3. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?

4. Who is forced to assist in the goading forward of new internees?

5. Which of these is not a condition the Doctor asks if the First Man has?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the painting the Man with the Eye-Patch mentions at the end of Chapter 8.

2. Does the Doctor give up on the case of blindness in the First Man?

3. What services will the government offer the quarantined inmates, according to the announcement?

4. Describe the state of the dormitory at the end of Chapter 6.

5. What is the Thief's state of mind at the beginning of Chapter 2?

6. Why do the guards fire on the inmates?

7. Describe what happens when the Doctor's Wife wakes up in the morning.

8. What is the Sergeant's attitude toward the internees?

9. Describe the humiliation that occurs when the Doctor tries to use the toilet in Chapter 6.

10. Does the First Man trust the man who comes to his aid after he goes blind?

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