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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 ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) A fever
(b) Blindness
(c) Dysentery
(d) Depression

2. Where does the fire that burns down the asylum begin?
(a) The Thug's ward
(b) The lavatory
(c) The courtyard
(d) The first ward

3. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor's Wife

4. Who takes control of the Leader's gun?
(a) An unnamed woman of the second ward
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) An unnamed Thug
(d) The Chronicler

5. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?
(a) Her necklace
(b) Her picture of them
(c) A lock of hair
(d) A note dictated to the Doctor's Wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?

2. What information - beside the fact that she can see - does the Doctor's Wife not volunteer to the man she talks to on the street?

3. How does the Man with the Eye Patch relay the news from his radio?

4. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?

5. What is eating a man's corpse in a city square?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Thugs' ward.

2. What plan does the Doctor's Wife and her band of companions develop after the asylum burns down?

3. What is the general attitude in the other wards when food stops arriving at the main entrance?

4. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find the Gaunt Old Woman when they approach her building?

5. Why would the Doctor's Wife's mentioning to the stranger she meets that she is going home reveal that she can see?

6. Describe the old woman with insomnia in Chapter 9.

7. What is the Doctor's principle argument for now trying to stop his wife from going to the Thugs' ward?

8. Describe the state of the outside world since the blindness disease has spread to almost every citizen?

9. How does the Doctor's Wife meet the Dog of Tears?

10. What does the Doctor's Wife say to silence the Thugs when they stop by the first ward at the beginning of Chapter 12?

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