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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?
(a) The Hotel Clerk
(b) The Man with the eye patch
(c) The Thief's Wife
(d) The Sergeant

2. How does the narrator justify the policeman's rudeness in interviewing the Girl with Dark Glasses?
(a) She does not pay taxes
(b) He has gone blind himself
(c) She is rude to him
(d) He is overwhelmed with blindness cases

3. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(c) The First Man
(d) The Chronicler

4. What is the first useful item that the Doctor's Wife finds in the grocery storeroom?
(a) Matches
(b) Chorizo sausage
(c) Bottled water
(d) Bread

5. What tertiary character is among those killed when the soldiers open fire?
(a) The Thief's wife
(b) The Doctor's assistant
(c) The woman near the First Man's car when he went blind
(d) The man that slept with the Girl with Dark Glasses

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?

2. In the discussion of organizing the first ward, which is not a suggested task to be assigned?

3. What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed?

4. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?

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

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