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

2. What does the First Man decide to do with his house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Give it to the writer as long as he is blind
(b) Expel the writer and take it back
(c) Give it to the writer permanently
(d) Move in but allow the writer to stay

3. Which of the following is not a threat that the Thugs make against the Doctor's Wife?
(a) They will kill her if they hear her voice
(b) They will set the first ward on fire
(c) They will kill evey member of the first ward who enters the hall
(d) They will cut off all food deliveries

4. What is the first useful item that the Doctor's Wife finds in the grocery storeroom?
(a) Bread
(b) Matches
(c) Chorizo sausage
(d) Bottled water

5. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?
(a) A rock
(b) A heavy stick
(c) A metal rod
(d) A blade of glass

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered by the Thug's after they make a full search of the wards for valuables?

2. Who is not a part of the group that walks to the city with the Doctor's Wife?

3. Who cannot walk with her own strength after the gang-rape by the Thugs?

4. Which two characters are given sneakers rather than boots by the Doctor's Wife?

5. What emotion does the Doctor's Wife feel toward the guard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would the Doctor's Wife's mentioning to the stranger she meets that she is going home reveal that she can see?

2. Describe the old woman with insomnia in Chapter 9.

3. How does the first ward get its information of the outside world?

4. Describe the Gaunt Old Woman that lives below the Girl with Dark Glasses' parents' apartment.

5. Describe the scene in the Thug's Ward immediately after the Doctor's Wife kills their leader.

6. What is the Doctor's principle argument for now trying to stop his wife from going to the Thugs' ward?

7. What is the Girl with Dark Glasses' decision about remaining with the Doctor's Wife?

8. Describe the state of the outside world since the blindness disease has spread to almost every citizen?

9. How does the Writer go about writing without his sight?

10. What happens to the Old Woman with insomnia in Chapter 11?

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