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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. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?
(a) Influenza
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Chronic diarrhea
(d) Cancer

2. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?
(a) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Nurse
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

3. How many containers of food is the first ward given?
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Seven

4. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?
(a) The Accountant
(b) The Eyes
(c) The Chronicler
(d) The Boy Genius

5. Who does not bathe in the rain?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Old Man with the Eye Patch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?

2. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?

3. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?

4. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?

5. Who is reduced to tears by tasting the bottled water?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What arrangement do the Thugs make for payment?

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

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

7. What does the Doctor's Wife do when she sees her husband in bed with the Girl with Dark Glasses?

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

9. How do the Thugs take control of the food rations?

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

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