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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 of the following is not a threat that the Thugs make against the Doctor's Wife?
(a) They will set the first ward on fire
(b) They will kill evey member of the first ward who enters the hall
(c) They will cut off all food deliveries
(d) They will kill her if they hear her voice

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

3. Why do the soldiers not shoot the blind inmates as they flee the quarantine?
(a) The soldiers have abandoned their post
(b) The soldiers are all blind
(c) The soldiers have run out of ammunition
(d) The soldiers are asleep and easily overtaken

4. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses not realize?
(a) Her glasses have been stolen
(b) Her conjunctivitis is gone
(c) Her hair has gone white
(d) She is sleeping in the wrong bed

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?

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

4. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?

5. What is the first thing the women of the first ward do with the body of their fallen comrade after they return?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the first ward get its information of the outside world?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the Gaunt Old Woman that lives below the Girl with Dark Glasses' parents' apartment.

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

10. Describe the scene in the Thug's Ward immediately after the Doctor's Wife kills their leader.

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