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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. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?
(a) She did not eat in her last week of life
(b) She is half-eaten by animals
(c) She has lost a lot of water in the sun
(d) She has decomposed substantially

2. What is eating a man's corpse in a city square?
(a) Maggots
(b) A group of blind people
(c) A pack of dogs
(d) A group of crows

3. What does the Doctor's Wife suggest to her husband she will do with the scissors?
(a) Kill herself
(b) Trim his beard
(c) She does not know
(d) Attack the Thugs

4. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?
(a) Seventeen
(b) Ten
(c) Twelve
(d) Fifteen

5. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?
(a) Women
(b) Services
(c) Money and valuables
(d) A ward to themselves

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables?

2. What does a blind person grab from the Doctor's Wife as she runs from the grocery?

3. On second glance, what does the Doctor's Wife notice the filthy blind lovers in the hall are doing?

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

5. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the Thugs' ward.

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

7. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' decision about remaining with the Doctor's Wife?

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

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

10. What does the Doctor's Wife do when she sees her husband in bed with the Girl with Dark Glasses?

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