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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 is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return?
(a) They wash her
(b) They wrap her in a sheet
(c) They tell the men to bury her
(d) They bury her immediately

2. What do the inmates do immediately after escaping the burning asylum?
(a) They scatter to the surrounding fields to make shelter
(b) They search the guard's post for food.
(c) They group off and head into the city
(d) They huddle together and sleep

3. 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?
(a) That she is not from the area
(b) That she was in quarantine
(c) That she has traveling companions
(d) That she is heading to her house

4. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?
(a) Her shirt
(b) Her shoe
(c) Her bag of groceries
(d) A clump of her hair

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?

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

3. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?

4. What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed?

5. What do two men returning from the Thugs warn the first warders not to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the result of the other wards having given the Thugs all their valuables at once?

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

6. What are the sleeping conditions in quarantine now that all of the beds are full?

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

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

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

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

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