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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 item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?
(a) A guitar
(b) A bouquet of flowers
(c) A mop
(d) A hand-fan

2. What is the Doctor pretending to look at when his wife wakes up?
(a) A Mirror
(b) Her
(c) The newspaper
(d) The sunrise

3. How does the Doctor describe the whiteness of First Man's blindness?
(a) Glowing
(b) Snowy
(c) Milky
(d) Hazy

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

5. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?
(a) No One
(b) His Wife
(c) Another Optometrist
(d) His Nurse

Short Answer Questions

1. A crash of what type of vehicle requires the Minister of Transportation to issue releases about the epidemic?

2. Which of these people is not among those the Girl with Dark Glasses interacted with the day she went blind?

3. Which of the following is not among the objects that internees saw immediately before going blind?

4. Which of the following is not something that the sergeant compares to the blind internees?

5. What do the soldiers pour on the blind Thief's blood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Describe the First Man's Wife's reaction to her husband when she comes home.

10. What insights does the Doctor's Wife have about the society of blind people in quarantine in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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