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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 does the Doctor's Wife find in a cupboard in the quarantine?
(a) Strait-jackets
(b) Old towels and tissue paper
(c) A dead animal
(d) Tins of milk
2. Which of the following is not a career of an arriving inmate?
(a) Taxi driver
(b) Hotel maid
(c) Shop clerk
(d) Policeman
3. What does the Doctor request of the soldiers?
(a) More food
(b) Pain killers
(c) Antibiotics
(d) Clean water
4. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7
(b) Elect a ward leader
(c) Clean the toilets
(d) Bury their dead
5. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) His Wife
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Thief
Short Answer Questions
1. With what item does the First Man cut himself?
2. How does the first ward compare to the others in cleanliness?
3. When does the spokesman for the second ward say they will bury their dead?
4. How many inmates are ordered to take away the Thief's body?
5. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses bring to the quarantine in her handbag?
Short Essay Questions
1. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?
2. How does the First Man compose himself in the Doctor's office?
3. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?
4. What insights does the Doctor's Wife have about the society of blind people in quarantine in the beginning of Chapter 5?
5. What appears to be the pattern for the spread of blindness in the novel?
6. Describe the Man with the Eye-Patch.
7. Why do the guards fire on the inmates?
8. What is the Doctor's conclusion about the origin of his blindness?
9. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?
10. What is the Thief's reaction to the suggestion that the Doctor be leader of the quarantined inmates?
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