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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?
(a) She did not eat in her last week of life
(b) She has decomposed substantially
(c) She has lost a lot of water in the sun
(d) She is half-eaten by animals

2. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?
(a) Abandoned cars
(b) Street curbs
(c) Alleyways
(d) Storefronts

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

4. What ridiculous suggestion does one inmate make after the Thugs steal the food rations?
(a) Asking the guards for more food
(b) Stealing the food back
(c) Calling the police
(d) Asking to join the Thugs

5. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?
(a) The soldiers deliver food rations
(b) The loudspeaker announces the quarantine rules
(c) The Doctor's Wife falls asleep
(d) The Doctor regains his sight

6. During the several small insurrections against the Thugs mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 11, how many shots are fired?
(a) Three
(b) None
(c) One
(d) Two

7. Who gives the Squinting Boy half his/her portion of food?
(a) The Doctor
(b) The Man with the Eye-Patch
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor's Wife

8. Who vomits as a result of the corpse being eaten?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The First Man
(d) The Squinting Boy

9. The Doctor's Wife reasons that she killed another man in addition to the Leader of the Thugs. Where does she stab him?
(a) In his neck
(b) In his stomach
(c) In his chest
(d) In his temple

10. One of the Thugs is blind from birth - not from the epidemic. What is he called by his cohorts?
(a) The Boy Genius
(b) The Eyes
(c) The Chronicler
(d) The Accountant

11. What does the Gaunt Old Woman clutch to in her rigor-mortised hand?
(a) A dead rabbit
(b) Her key
(c) A picture of her family
(d) A cabbage

12. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?
(a) The Old Woman with Insomnia
(b) The Chambermaid
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The First Man's Wife

13. Who in the first ward defends the anonymous person who killed the Leader of the Thugs?
(a) The Man with the Eye Patch
(b) The Doctor
(c) The First Man
(d) The Girl with Dark Glasses

14. Why do the soldiers not shoot the blind inmates as they flee the quarantine?
(a) The soldiers have run out of ammunition
(b) The soldiers are asleep and easily overtaken
(c) The soldiers have abandoned their post
(d) The soldiers are all blind

15. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?
(a) A dog
(b) A group of blind people from the grocery
(c) A cat
(d) A group of blind children

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Thug's guard keep watch?

2. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?

3. Who stops sleeping in the main room of the house after the Man with the Eye Patch's awkward declaration of love?

4. Approximately how many Thugs have taken control of the fifth ward?

5. In the first ward, who suggests and an armed assault against the Thugs?

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