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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the soldiers not shoot the blind inmates as they flee the quarantine?
(a) The soldiers have abandoned their post
(b) The soldiers are all blind
(c) The soldiers have run out of ammunition
(d) The soldiers are asleep and easily overtaken

2. At the beginning of Chapter 9, approximately how many internees are in quarantine?
(a) Two hundred and forty
(b) One hundred and eighty
(c) Three hundred
(d) Three hundred and fifty

3. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?
(a) Beg for his life
(b) Has an orgasm
(c) Throw a woman over his bed
(d) Slaps the Doctor's Wife

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

5. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?
(a) The Doctor's Wife falls asleep
(b) The soldiers deliver food rations
(c) The loudspeaker announces the quarantine rules
(d) The Doctor regains his sight

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?

3. Who is the first man in the first ward to protest that the women should not submit to the Thugs?

4. A crash of what type of vehicle requires the Minister of Transportation to issue releases about the epidemic?

5. What is delivered for lunch?

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