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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 among the rules announced to the inmates?
(a) Lights will remain on at all times
(b) Food will be delivered three times daily
(c) Inmates must bury their own dead
(d) The inmates are forbidden to organize

2. Why does the Thief leave the First Man's car?
(a) He is paranoid of being caught
(b) The police arrest him
(c) It runs out of fuel
(d) He has a fit of conscience

3. Why do the other people waiting in the Doctor's surgery grow irate?
(a) They all go blind
(b) The Squinting Child gets sick
(c) The First Man is admitted before them
(d) The air conditioner is broken

4. How does the Thief die?
(a) He dies from gangrene
(b) He is shot
(c) He bleeds to death
(d) He hangs himself

5. What valuable piece of information does the Doctor's Wife take from the radio?
(a) The temperture and weather forecast
(b) An update on the number of blind cases reported
(c) The news of a new govenment
(d) The time

6. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Thief
(d) The First Man

7. Why do two inmates in the first ward fight?
(a) One took the other's bed
(b) One slept with the other's wife
(c) One has been hording food
(d) One took the other's watch

8. Which group is forced to barricade itseld as the quarantine is flooded with new inmates?
(a) The contaminated
(b) The second ward
(c) The first ward
(d) The guards

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

10. What is the Doctor pretending to look at when his wife wakes up?
(a) Her
(b) The newspaper
(c) A Mirror
(d) The sunrise

11. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Thief
(c) His Wife
(d) The Doctor

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

13. Why does the Girl with Dark Glasses' companion abandon her when she goes blind?
(a) He does not want to go blind as well
(b) He had not paid for the hotel room
(c) He has paid for their liaison
(d) She tells him to do so

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

15. Which of these is not a condition the Doctor asks if the First Man has?
(a) Glaucoma
(b) Syphillis
(c) Diabetes
(d) Hypertension

Short Answer Questions

1. What object is not in the painting one man saw before going blind?

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

3. Who is not among the first group of inmates to arrive in quarantine?

4. What item does an anonymous person wish was around near the end of Chapter 8?

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

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