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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 information - beside the fact that she can see - does the Doctor's Wife not volunteer to the man she talks to on the street?
(a) That she is heading to her house
(b) That she is not from the area
(c) That she was in quarantine
(d) That she has traveling companions

2. What do the Thugs demand in Chapter 9 in exchange for food?
(a) Services
(b) A ward to themselves
(c) Women
(d) Money and valuables

3. Who does not bathe in the rain?
(a) The Old Man with the Eye Patch
(b) The First Man's Wife
(c) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(d) The Doctor's Wife

4. What item does the Doctor's Wife find in her purse that could be used as a weapon?
(a) Scissors
(b) A nail file
(c) A letter opener
(d) A zippo lighter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?

2. Which is not an item the Doctor's Wife finds in her larder?

3. What does the Doctor's Wife suggest to her husband she will do with the scissors?

4. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses leave on her parents' door to alert them that she's alive?

5. The Doctor's Wife reasons that she killed another man in addition to the Leader of the Thugs. Where does she stab him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Doctor's Wife meet the Dog of Tears?

3. What is the result of the other wards having given the Thugs all their valuables at once?

4. What idea does the Doctor's Wife have when it starts raining?

5. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find the Gaunt Old Woman when they approach her building?

6. How do the Thugs keep track of their earnings?

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

8. Describe the Thugs' ward.

9. What does the Doctor's Wife say to silence the Thugs when they stop by the first ward at the beginning of Chapter 12?

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

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