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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To what animal does the Doctor's Wife compare the blind inmates?
(a) Moles
(b) Snakes
(c) Dogs
(d) Bats
2. What valuable piece of information does the Doctor's Wife take from the radio?
(a) The time
(b) The temperture and weather forecast
(c) An update on the number of blind cases reported
(d) The news of a new govenment
3. Who is the reader following at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The First Man's Wife
(b) The Doctor
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Thief
4. What does the doctor step on on his way to the lavatory?
(a) Spilled food
(b) A sleeping inmate
(c) Feces
(d) A puddle of blood
5. What object is not in the painting one man saw before going blind?
(a) A conch shell
(b) A naked woman
(c) A seagull
(d) Flowers
Short Answer Questions
1. Approximately how many new blind internees arrive at quarantine in Chapter 7?
2. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
3. Whose spouse arrives with the new inmates?
4. What rumor about the government is going around?
5. Which newly blind character arrives in the first ward at the end of the chapter?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are conditions in quarantine affected as more inmates arrive throughout Chapter 5?
2. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?
3. What is the Thief's reaction to the suggestion that the Doctor be leader of the quarantined inmates?
4. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?
5. Describe the humiliation that occurs when the Doctor tries to use the toilet in Chapter 6.
6. Describe what happens when the Doctor's Wife wakes up in the morning.
7. What bit of knowledge does the Thief reveal to the Doctor's Wife on the night of his death? What will he do with this knowledge?
8. Who in the first ward dies in the hail of fire?
9. Describe the final moments of the Thief's life.
10. What services will the government offer the quarantined inmates, according to the announcement?
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