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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. Who constantly tries to convince the Girl with Dark Glasses to sleep with him?
(a) The Chronicler
(b) The Pharmacist's Assistant
(c) The First Man
(d) The Doctor

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

3. What begins to follow the Doctor's Wife on her way back to her companions?
(a) A group of blind people from the grocery
(b) A dog
(c) A cat
(d) A group of blind children

4. Whose lodging does that group decide to skip on their journey?
(a) The Man with the Black Eye Patch
(b) The First Man
(c) The Squinting Child
(d) The Doctor

5. How many people are living in the First Man's apartment?
(a) Four
(b) Three
(c) Two
(d) Five

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Gaunt Old Woman's body particularly light?

2. What does the Girl with Dark Glasses not realize?

3. Where do women prefer to relieve themselves in the new nomadic existence?

4. Which of the following is not a threat that the Thugs make against the Doctor's Wife?

5. What item does the Doctor's Wife find in her purse that could be used as a weapon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What plan does the Doctor's Wife and her band of companions develop after the asylum burns down?

5. How do the Thugs take control of the food rations?

6. What arrangement do the Thugs make for payment?

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

8. What is the general attitude in the other wards when food stops arriving at the main entrance?

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. What does the Doctor's Wife do when she sees her husband in bed with the Girl with Dark Glasses?

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