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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 is the Doctor pretending to look at when his wife wakes up?
(a) The sunrise
(b) The newspaper
(c) Her
(d) A Mirror
2. How does the Thief die?
(a) He is shot
(b) He bleeds to death
(c) He hangs himself
(d) He dies from gangrene
3. What is provided to the inmates for breakfast?
(a) Rolls and Coffee
(b) Biscuits and Milk
(c) Bread and Water
(d) Vegetables and Juice
4. Who is kept in the second wing of the asylum?
(a) Medical staff
(b) The possibly infected
(c) Family members of the blind
(d) Blind inmates who are sick or elderly
5. Where is quarantine located?
(a) No one knows
(b) An abandoned school
(c) A hospital
(d) A factory
Short Answer Questions
1. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?
2. Who comes to the First Man's aid when the Thief accuses him of causing everyone's blindness?
3. Where does the Girl with Dark Glasses go immediately after leaving the Doctor's office?
4. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?
5. What are the inmates instructed to do after eating meals?
Short Essay Questions
1. What insights does the Doctor's Wife have about the society of blind people in quarantine in the beginning of Chapter 5?
2. How does the Man with the Eye-Patch describe the state of the outside world?
3. What is the Sergeant's attitude toward the internees?
4. Describe what happens when the Doctor's Wife wakes up in the morning.
5. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?
6. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?
7. What appears to be the pattern for the spread of blindness in the novel?
8. What services will the government offer the quarantined inmates, according to the announcement?
9. Describe the Man with the Eye-Patch.
10. What is the Thief's reaction to the suggestion that the Doctor be leader of the quarantined inmates?
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