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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not something that the sergeant compares to the blind internees?
(a) Rag dolls
(b) Blind bats
(c) Rabid dogs
(d) Gangrenous limbs

2. What does the Ministry of Health require of the Doctor?
(a) His consultation
(b) His medical files
(c) His equipment
(d) His eyes for analysis

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

4. What does the First Man see after he goes blind?
(a) Black
(b) Static
(c) White
(d) Flashing Light

5. What is the problem with the food at lunch?
(a) It never arrives
(b) There is not enough of it
(c) It is uncooked
(d) It has spoiled

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

7. Of the four corpses that the first ward buries, how many actually slept in the first ward?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) None
(d) Four

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

9. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?
(a) They take pity on him, since he is blind
(b) They do not know his car is stolen
(c) He pays them off
(d) They go blind themselves

10. What does the Doctor's Wife find in a cupboard in the quarantine?
(a) Tins of milk
(b) Strait-jackets
(c) Old towels and tissue paper
(d) A dead animal

11. What did the doctor's wife forget to do before going to sleep?
(a) Kiss her husband
(b) Wind her watch
(c) Go to the toilet
(d) Remove her filthy shoes

12. Who comes to the First Man's aid when the Thief accuses him of causing everyone's blindness?
(a) No One
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor

13. To what part of a car does the Doctor compare the eyes?
(a) Headlight
(b) Bumper
(c) Engine
(d) Carburetor

14. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?
(a) His Nurse
(b) His Wife
(c) No One
(d) Another Optometrist

15. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7
(b) Elect a ward leader
(c) Clean the toilets
(d) Bury their dead

Short Answer Questions

1. What valuable piece of information does the Doctor's Wife take from the radio?

2. What is the doctor's diagnosis to explain the First Man's blindness?

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

4. What aggravates the Doctor in his call with the Ministry of Health?

5. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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