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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why isn't the First Man's wife home?
(a) He is unmarried
(b) She is at her book club
(c) She is shopping
(d) She is at work

2. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' profession?
(a) Sales Clerk
(b) Teacher
(c) Musician
(d) Prostitute

3. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Give it to the writer permanently
(b) Move in but allow the writer to stay
(c) Expel the writer and take it back
(d) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind

4. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?
(a) He holds the gun and fires a shot if he hear something
(b) He clicks his tongue and listens for the echo
(c) He waves a stick back and forth, feeling for intruders
(d) He has built a barricade of trash, beds, and feces

5. What does the doctor step on on his way to the lavatory?
(a) A puddle of blood
(b) Feces
(c) Spilled food
(d) A sleeping inmate

Short Answer Questions

1. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?

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

3. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?

4. What is delivered for lunch?

5. Which two people share a moment of forgiveness in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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