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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. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?
(a) Demolished and filthy
(b) Dusty but intact
(c) Pristine
(d) Cluttered but sanitary

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

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

4. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?
(a) Washing the First Man's Wife
(b) Telling a story to the Squinting Child
(c) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch
(d) Trimming her husband's beard

5. Where does the Doctor's Wife leave her traveling companions?
(a) An abandoned school building
(b) An open shop
(c) Her house
(d) A playground

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?

2. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?

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

4. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What arrangement do the Thugs make for payment?

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

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

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

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

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

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