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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 do two men returning from the Thugs warn the first warders not to do?
(a) Talk back
(b) Drop anything
(c) Hide anything
(d) Make any sudden moves

2. Who does not bathe in the rain?
(a) The Old Man with the Eye Patch
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Doctor's Wife

3. Why does the Man with the Eye Patch stop receiving news from his radio?
(a) The announcer goes blind
(b) The station stops broadcasting
(c) He has to give the radio to the Thugs
(d) The radio dies

4. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?
(a) Calling the police
(b) Asking the guards for more food
(c) Stealing the food back
(d) Asking to join the Thugs

5. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(b) Moves it nearer the open window
(c) Makes a tent over it with a blanket
(d) Pushes it together with another

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stops sleeping in the main room of the house after the Man with the Eye Patch's awkward declaration of love?

2. What important item did the Doctor's Wife bring from the asylum?

3. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?

4. Which of the following is not a threat that the Thugs make against the Doctor's Wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Doctor's Wife say to silence the Thugs when they stop by the first ward at the beginning of Chapter 12?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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