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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Doctor do when he discovers he is blind?
(a) Wakes his wife
(b) Calls the hospital
(c) Screams
(d) Tries to go back to sleep

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

3. Which of the following characters are not in the Doctor's waiting room?
(a) The Girl With Dark Glasses
(b) The Man with the Eyepatch
(c) The Thief
(d) The Squinting Child

4. Which of the following is not an item the Doctor's wife packs for quarantine?
(a) Blouses
(b) Pants
(c) Shoes
(d) Food

5. Which of the following is not among the objects that internees saw immediately before going blind?
(a) A stoplight
(b) A book
(c) The moon
(d) A bedsheet

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

7. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Five

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

9. Why is the Girl with Dark Glasses seeing the Doctor?
(a) Cataracts
(b) Conjunctivitis
(c) Glaucoma
(d) Partial Blindness

10. What does the Doctor request of the soldiers?
(a) Antibiotics
(b) Clean water
(c) Pain killers
(d) More food

11. When does the Doctor go blind?
(a) When he wakes up the next morning
(b) At dinner that night
(c) Immediately after leaving his office
(d) On his way to work the next day

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

13. What mixes with the blood after several inmates are shot by the soldiers?
(a) Mud
(b) Milk
(c) Water
(d) Urine

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The night after inspecting the First Man, who does the doctor talk with first about the case?

2. What are the inmates instructed to do after eating meals?

3. To what does a radio commentator compare the blindness epidemic?

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

5. To what part of a car does the Doctor compare the eyes?

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