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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 do the soldiers pour on the blind Thief's blood?
(a) Ammonia
(b) Hot Water
(c) Sawdust
(d) Sulphuric Acid
2. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses want to listen to on the portable radio?
(a) Music
(b) Call-in programs
(c) Religious programs
(d) News
3. Why do the other people waiting in the Doctor's surgery grow irate?
(a) The First Man is admitted before them
(b) The Squinting Child gets sick
(c) The air conditioner is broken
(d) They all go blind
4. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?
(a) The Thief's Wife
(b) The Hotel Clerk
(c) The Man with the eye patch
(d) The Sergeant
5. What rumor about the government is going around?
(a) The President has gone blind
(b) A new one is being formed
(c) The government has been overthrown by a coup
(d) The Minister of Health has resigned
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the inmates find their way back to the dormitory after picking up the food?
2. To what animal does an anonymous inmate compare her fellow internees at the very end of Chapter 6?
3. Why does the Thief believe he is in his dire situation?
4. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?
5. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' profession?
Short Essay Questions
1. Does the First Man trust the man who comes to his aid after he goes blind?
2. What appears to be the pattern for the spread of blindness in the novel?
3. What is the Thief's state of mind at the beginning of Chapter 2?
4. Describe the asylum dormitory.
5. Describe what happens when the Doctor's Wife wakes up in the morning.
6. What is the Doctor's Wife's reaction to her husbands hypothesis about his blindness?
7. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?
8. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?
9. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?
10. What is the Sergeant's attitude toward the internees?
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