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

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

3. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?
(a) A lock of hair
(b) A note dictated to the Doctor's Wife
(c) Her picture of them
(d) Her necklace

4. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Chambermaid
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor's Wife

5. Who vomits as a result of the corpse being eaten?
(a) The Doctor's Wife
(b) The Squinting Boy
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The First Man

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Man with the Eye Patch stop receiving news from his radio?

2. What does the Gaunt Old Woman clutch to in her rigor-mortised hand?

3. The Doctor's Wife reasons that she killed another man in addition to the Leader of the Thugs. Where does she stab him?

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

5. What vegetable does the Gaunt Old Woman eat along with her raw rabbit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What arrangement do the Thugs make for payment?

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

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

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

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