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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. Why does the Thief leave the First Man's car?
(a) He is paranoid of being caught
(b) It runs out of fuel
(c) He has a fit of conscience
(d) The police arrest him

2. Why does the Doctor think his Wife has gone blind when he wakes up?
(a) She is crying
(b) She is sleeping in the wrong bed
(c) She is staring straight ahead
(d) She has fallen in the filth

3. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?
(a) She is rude to him
(b) He is overwhelmed with blindness cases
(c) He has gone blind himself
(d) She does not pay taxes

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

5. To what part of a car does the Doctor compare the eyes?
(a) Headlight
(b) Bumper
(c) Engine
(d) Carburetor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses want to listen to on the portable radio?

2. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?

3. With what item does the First Man cut himself?

4. What does the Ministry of Health require of the Doctor?

5. Which character urinates in his pants?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the guards fire on the inmates?

2. What does the Doctor do when his Wife tells him that a Man with an Eye-Patch has arrived in the ward?

3. How are conditions in quarantine affected as more inmates arrive throughout Chapter 5?

4. How does the First Man compose himself in the Doctor's office?

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

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

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

10. Describe the Girl with Dark Glasses' attitude toward her work.

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