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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Doctor's Wife hide in the Gaunt Old Woman's garden before leaving?

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

4. How many inmates are shot during the assault on the Thugs' ward?

5. How many women from the second ward go to the Thugs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the Girl with Dark Glasses respond to the Man with the Eye-Patch's declaration of love?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several objects have major effects on the outcome of events in quarantine. Write a body paragraph about each of these objects: initial impressions upon its first appearance in the narrative, conjecture about its possible use by characters, and eventual function within the story:

Part 1) The gun

Part 2) The scissors

Part 3) The lighter

Essay Topic 2

In the latter passages of the novel, dogs are a constant presence in the filthy, dying streets of the blind city. Largely, they are seen as scavengers, but one - the dog of tears - is a healing gentle soul. What does he symbolize for the Doctor's Wife? To what extent does his arrival herald a turning point in the story? Is the dog otherworldly? Does it act against its nature? Write, in essay form, about the function of the dogs of tears, focusing a paragraph each of the following:

1. Its entrance into the story

2. Its attitude towards death

3. Its interactions with other dogs

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of violence in the novel. Is it seen as a purely evil force, or is its function in the novel more ambiguous? Why is it presented in such graphic detail? Write about each of the following violent episodes:

1. The gang-rape of the first ward women by the Thugs.

2. The murder of the Leader of the Thugs by the Doctor's Wife.

3. The burning down of the asylum.

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