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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. Whose house is furthest away from the asylum?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(c) The First Man
(d) The Doctor

2. What is the group doing when the Man with the Eye Patch declares his love?
(a) Discussing their plans for the next day
(b) Dancing
(c) Reading stories
(d) Listening to records

3. When the Doctor's Wife gets out of bed, what does she choose not to put on?
(a) Glasses
(b) Nightgown
(c) Robe
(d) Shoes

4. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?
(a) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Squinting Child
(d) The First Man's Wife

5. In addition to the gun, what else do the Thugs carry as weapons?
(a) Broom handles
(b) Kitchen utensils
(c) Metal rods
(d) Shards of glass

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?

2. Which two characters are given sneakers rather than boots by the Doctor's Wife?

3. On second glance, what does the Doctor's Wife notice the filthy blind lovers in the hall are doing?

4. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?

5. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' decision about remaining with the Doctor's Wife?

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

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

5. What happens to the Old Woman with insomnia in Chapter 11?

6. How do the Thugs keep track of their earnings?

7. How does the Girl with Dark Glasses respond to the Man with the Eye-Patch's declaration of love?

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

9. How does the Writer go about writing without his sight?

10. Why doesn't the Doctor's Wife tell the other inmates that she can see?

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