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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Approximately how many Thugs have taken control of the fifth ward?
(a) Five
(b) Ten
(c) Thirty
(d) Twenty
2. What pierces a blind man's leg as he searches the same supermarket as the Doctor's Wife?
(a) A rotten fish bone
(b) A splinter of glass
(c) A stray nail
(d) A sardine tin lid
3. What is the Doctor's Wife doing when the Thugs enter the first ward to mock the women?
(a) Listening to the radio with the Man with the Eye-Patch
(b) Washing the First Man's Wife
(c) Telling a story to the Squinting Child
(d) Trimming her husband's beard
4. What happens for the first time in many days as the first ward is preparing to siege the Thugs?
(a) The loudspeaker announces the quarantine rules
(b) The Doctor regains his sight
(c) The Doctor's Wife falls asleep
(d) The soldiers deliver food rations
5. What item does the Girl with Dark Glasses hide beneath her bed?
(a) A watch
(b) A sanitary napkin
(c) A photo
(d) Her eyedrops
6. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Chronicler
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(d) The First Man
7. 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
8. Where does the Doctor's Wife leave her traveling companions?
(a) An open shop
(b) A playground
(c) Her house
(d) An abandoned school building
9. How many people are living in the First Man's apartment?
(a) Three
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Two
10. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses do with her bed, that the Doctor's Wife wishes she had thought to do?
(a) Ties makeshift ropes along the side for protection
(b) Pushes it together with another
(c) Moves it nearer the open window
(d) Makes a tent over it with a blanket
11. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Chambermaid
(d) The Old Woman with Insomnia
12. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?
(a) The Man with the Black Eye Patch
(b) The First Man
(c) The Doctor
(d) The Squinting Child
13. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?
(a) A lock of hair
(b) A note dictated to the Doctor's Wife
(c) Her necklace
(d) Her picture of them
14. Which ailment is not mentioned among those prevalent in quarantine?
(a) Influenza
(b) Cancer
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Chronic diarrhea
15. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?
(a) A ward to themselves
(b) Services
(c) Money and valuables
(d) Women
Short Answer Questions
1. What is discovered by the Thug's after they make a full search of the wards for valuables?
2. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?
3. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?
4. What is the group doing when the Man with the Eye Patch declares his love?
5. What does the Doctor say all of the country is dying from?
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