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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 do the soldiers pour on the blind Thief's blood?
(a) Sulphuric Acid
(b) Ammonia
(c) Hot Water
(d) Sawdust
2. Which of the following is not an item the Doctor's wife packs for quarantine?
(a) Food
(b) Pants
(c) Shoes
(d) Blouses
3. Who pick's up the spade from the soldiers?
(a) The Doctor's Wife
(b) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(c) The Doctor
(d) The First Man
4. Which of these is not a condition the Doctor asks if the First Man has?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Glaucoma
(c) Syphillis
(d) Hypertension
5. Why does the Girl with Dark Glasses' companion abandon her when she goes blind?
(a) He had not paid for the hotel room
(b) He does not want to go blind as well
(c) She tells him to do so
(d) He has paid for their liaison
Short Answer Questions
1. Who comes to the First Man's aid after he goes blind?
2. How does the first ward compare to the others in cleanliness?
3. Before the soldiers provide a spade, what do the inmates use to try to bury the Thief?
4. Why don't the police arrest the Thief after he goes blind?
5. To what animal does the Doctor's Wife compare the blind inmates?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Girl with Dark Glasses' attitude toward her work.
2. What happens when the hundreds of new internees are delivered to quarantine?
3. What news does the Minister of Health have for the Doctor when he calls back?
4. How does the First Man compose himself in the Doctor's office?
5. What insights does the Doctor's Wife have about the society of blind people in quarantine in the beginning of Chapter 5?
6. What appears to be the pattern for the spread of blindness in the novel?
7. What is the Doctor's Wife's reaction to her husbands hypothesis about his blindness?
8. What does the Doctor do when his Wife tells him that a Man with an Eye-Patch has arrived in the ward?
9. 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?
10. Who in the first ward dies in the hail of fire?
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