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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. What is delivered for lunch?
(a) Coffee and bread with margarine
(b) Water and cold cut meat
(c) Milk and cheese sandwiches
(d) Tea with biscuits

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

3. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?
(a) They take pity on him, since he is blind
(b) They go blind themselves
(c) He pays them off
(d) They do not know his car is stolen

4. What does the second ward finally do in Chapter 8?
(a) Clean the toilets
(b) Elect a ward leader
(c) Bury their dead
(d) Return the food stolen in Chapter 7

5. Where is the First Man when he goes blind?
(a) The park
(b) His car
(c) His home
(d) The Doctor's office

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the last patient the Doctor sees the day before he goes blind?

2. How many inmates from each ward collect the food at mealtime?

3. Who is the second person who goes blind in the novel?

4. What does the First Man use to dress his wounded hand?

5. What does the Ministry of Health require of the Doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Man with the Eye-Patch describe the state of the outside world?

2. What is the government's plan for dealing with the outbreak at the end of Chapter 3?

3. Does the Doctor have an explanation for the First Man's sudden blindness?

4. 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?

5. What does the Doctor do when his Wife tells him that a Man with an Eye-Patch has arrived in the ward?

6. What is the Sergeant's attitude toward the internees?

7. Describe the First Man's Wife's reaction to her husband when she comes home.

8. What is the Doctor's Wife's reaction to her husbands hypothesis about his blindness?

9. What services will the government offer the quarantined inmates, according to the announcement?

10. What is the Doctor's conclusion about the origin of his blindness?

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