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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. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
(a) The Thief
(b) His Wife
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

2. What is provided to the inmates for breakfast?
(a) Vegetables and Juice
(b) Biscuits and Milk
(c) Bread and Water
(d) Rolls and Coffee

3. What do the inmates do before burying their dead?
(a) Administer last rights
(b) Sleep
(c) Eat lunch
(d) Mop the central hallway

4. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Elect a ward leader
(b) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7
(c) Bury their dead
(d) Clean the toilets

5. How does the Doctor know who comes into the quarantine?
(a) He recognizes his patients' voices
(b) One of his patients recognizes his voice
(c) His wife tells him
(d) He temporarily regains his sight

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one advantage of having a completely full first ward?

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

3. Where is the First Man when he goes blind?

4. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?

5. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Man with the Eye-Patch.

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

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

4. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?

5. By this point, is the dispersal of food effectively organized by Chapter 7?

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

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

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

9. How does the Thief suffer an injury?

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

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