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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?
(a) Washing the First Man's Wife
(b) Trimming her husband's beard
(c) Telling a story to the Squinting Child
(d) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch

2. Which two characters in the first ward collect and deliver the valuables?
(a) The Doctor's Wife and the First Man
(b) The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife
(c) The First Man and the Doctor
(d) The First Man and the Nurse

3. At the beginning of Chapter 9, approximately how many internees are in quarantine?
(a) Three hundred and fifty
(b) Two hundred and forty
(c) One hundred and eighty
(d) Three hundred

4. How does the Man with the Eye Patch relay the news from his radio?
(a) He tell is to the Doctor's Wife, who passes it on
(b) He does not tell the others
(c) He passes it bed to bed like a game of Telephone
(d) He makes three summary announcements a day

5. In addition to the gun, what else do the Thugs carry as weapons?
(a) Shards of glass
(b) Metal rods
(c) Kitchen utensils
(d) Broom handles

6. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(c) The Nurse
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

7. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?
(a) Clothing
(b) Monogamy
(c) Private defecation
(d) Private property

8. What is eating a man's corpse in a city square?
(a) A group of blind people
(b) A pack of dogs
(c) A group of crows
(d) Maggots

9. What does the Leader of the Thugs do at the same time as his throat is cut?
(a) Slaps the Doctor's Wife
(b) Has an orgasm
(c) Beg for his life
(d) Throw a woman over his bed

10. Who is the first woman from the first ward that the Leader of the Thugs rapes?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

11. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?
(a) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) The Squinting Child
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

12. Which two characters are given sneakers rather than boots by the Doctor's Wife?
(a) The Man with the Eye Patch and the Squinting Child
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch and the First Man
(c) The Doctor and the Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses and the First Man's Wife

13. Where does the Doctor's Wife leave her traveling companions?
(a) An open shop
(b) Her house
(c) A playground
(d) An abandoned school building

14. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The First Man
(c) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(d) The Chronicler

15. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?
(a) Irritation
(b) Helplessness
(c) None of the above
(d) Outrage

Short Answer Questions

1. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?

2. What does the Doctor's Wife hide in the Gaunt Old Woman's garden before leaving?

3. Why does the Man with the Eye Patch stop receiving news from his radio?

4. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?

5. What ailment does the Doctor's Wife fear she has at the end of Chapter 10?

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