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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 does the night guard do when the Doctor's Wife sits at the main entrance of the quarantine?
(a) Shouts at her to get back inside
(b) Continues sleeping
(c) Fires his gun in the air as a warning
(d) Takes aim on her until she goes back in

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

3. What important item did the Doctor's Wife bring from the asylum?
(a) A lighter
(b) A compass
(c) The scissors
(d) Her keys

4. Who takes control of the Leader's gun?
(a) An unnamed Thug
(b) The Chronicler
(c) The Doctor's Wife
(d) An unnamed woman of the second ward

5. 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 kill her if they hear her voice
(d) They will cut off all food deliveries

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?

2. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?

3. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?

4. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?

5. Which is not an item the Doctor's Wife finds in her larder?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the Thugs keep track of their earnings?

6. What arrangement do the Thugs make for payment?

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

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

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

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

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