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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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 Sergeant
(c) The Man with the eye patch
(d) The Thief's Wife

2. Why do the inmates collecting the food start shouting out the entrance?
(a) There is not enough food
(b) To annoy the guards
(c) To lure back a lost comrade
(d) The guards open fire again

3. What has run out by the end of the chapter?
(a) Blankets
(b) None of the above
(c) Toilet paper
(d) Beds

4. How does the Doctor's Wife gain access to quarantine?
(a) She follows the ambulance
(b) She begs an attandant
(c) She pays off the driver
(d) She says she is blind

5. How does the first ward compare to the others in cleanliness?
(a) It is senond only to the second ward in terms of filthiness
(b) It is the filthiest
(c) It is the cleanest
(d) All wards are equally filthy by this point

6. How long does it take the government to round up the known blind for quarantine?
(a) Ten days
(b) Less than a day
(c) One week
(d) Two days

7. A crash of what type of vehicle requires the Minister of Transportation to issue releases about the epidemic?
(a) A series of cars
(b) An airplane
(c) A train
(d) A bus

8. Who escorts the Thief home?
(a) The Man with the Eyepatch
(b) The Police
(c) His Wife
(d) A Passerby

9. Where does the Girl with Dark Glasses go immediately after leaving the Doctor's office?
(a) Church
(b) Home
(c) The chemist
(d) A hotel

10. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Thief
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

11. What does the First Man use to dress his wounded hand?
(a) Gauze
(b) A handkerchief
(c) A towel
(d) A shirt

12. Why does the Thief believe he is in his dire situation?
(a) He molested the Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) He allowed himself to be taken to quarantine
(c) He stole the First Man's car
(d) He helped the First Man home

13. What does the government ask families to do as the epidemic spreads faster?
(a) Burn the belongings of any blind family members
(b) Keep their blind indoors
(c) Personally deliver their blind to quarantine locations
(d) KIll their blind immediately

14. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses bring to the quarantine in her handbag?
(a) Her eyedrops
(b) A knife
(c) A flask
(d) A hand mirror

15. Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers?
(a) The Doctor's Wife
(b) The First Man
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal does an anonymous inmate compare her fellow internees at the very end of Chapter 6?

2. What is the one advantage of having a completely full first ward?

3. How many inmates are ordered to take away the Thief's body?

4. Which of the following is not among the rules announced to the inmates?

5. What action does the First Man take, forgetting that he has gone blind?

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