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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. Approximately how many new blind internees arrive at quarantine in Chapter 7?
(a) Three hundred
(b) Two hundred
(c) Eighty
(d) One hundred and fifty

2. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?
(a) The Thief's wife
(b) The Doctor's assistant
(c) The woman near the First Man's car when he went blind
(d) The man that slept with the Girl with Dark Glasses

3. What object is not in the painting one man saw before going blind?
(a) A conch shell
(b) A seagull
(c) A naked woman
(d) Flowers

4. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?
(a) Three
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Two

5. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?
(a) Water
(b) Urine
(c) Milk
(d) Mud

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor do when he discovers he is blind?

2. Which of the following is not an item the Doctor's wife packs for quarantine?

3. What does the manager of the hotel do when the Girl with Dark Glasses goes blind?

4. Why is the Girl with Dark Glasses seeing the Doctor?

5. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?

2. Who in the first ward dies in the hail of fire?

3. Does the Doctor have an explanation for the First Man's sudden blindness?

4. What is the Doctor's conclusion about the origin of his blindness?

5. What bit of knowledge does the Thief reveal to the Doctor's Wife on the night of his death? What will he do with this knowledge?

6. What is the Doctor's Wife's reaction to her husbands hypothesis about his blindness?

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

8. Describe the final moments of the Thief's life.

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

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

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