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

2. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?
(a) The Man with the Eye Patch
(b) The First Man
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor

3. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?
(a) Abandoned cars
(b) Street curbs
(c) Storefronts
(d) Alleyways

4. Which is not an item the Doctor's Wife finds in her larder?
(a) Biscuits
(b) A jar of preserves
(c) Honey
(d) Dried fruit

5. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?
(a) The Chambermaid
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not bathe in the rain?

2. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 9, approximately how many internees are in quarantine?

4. Where does the Doctor's Wife leave her traveling companions?

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

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

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

5. What does the unnamed woman do with the lighter she finds among her baggage?

6. What idea does the Doctor's Wife have when it starts raining?

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

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

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

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

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