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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man in Chapter Three steal for the young mother and her child?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Meat.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Cheese.

2. Where do Bill and Josella agree the light in the night came from?
(a) A plane.
(b) A forest.
(c) A farmhouse.
(d) A university tower.

3. What is the result of Bill's attempts with the sighted leader of the drunks?
(a) He is hit.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is laughed at.
(d) He is taken captive.

4. What example does Vorless use to show his point about belief?
(a) That people have been killing others.
(b) That people have been raping women.
(c) That people have been fighting one another.
(d) That people have been stealing supplies.

5. What brings Bill into the alley where he finds a blind man and his captive?
(a) A woman's scream.
(b) A child's laugh.
(c) A dog's bark.
(d) A man's voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the young woman's name?

2. What does Josella admit she fears most in being alone?

3. Why is the narrator particularly anxious on the first day of the novel?

4. Where did the main character, William Masen, grow up?

5. What did Bill's father want him to do for a living?

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