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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 vomits as a result of the corpse being eaten?
(a) The Doctor's Wife
(b) The Squinting Boy
(c) The First Man
(d) The First Man's Wife

2. Who is the first woman in the first ward to announce she will acquiesce to the Thugs' demands?
(a) The Girl with Dark Glasses
(b) The Doctor's Wife
(c) The First Man's Wife
(d) The Chambermaid

3. Approximately how many Thugs have taken control of the fifth ward?
(a) Five
(b) Ten
(c) Twenty
(d) Thirty

4. Which of the following social niceties has not disappeared from society in this chapter?
(a) Clothing
(b) Private defecation
(c) Monogamy
(d) Private property

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state do the Doctor and his Wife find their house?

2. What does each member of the sieging group carry with her?

3. Whom is the first person the Doctor's Wife informs she can see?

4. What pierces a blind man's leg as he searches the same supermarket as the Doctor's Wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the sleeping conditions in quarantine now that all of the beds are full?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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