Blindness

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. How does the First Blind Man describe his blindness?

A) A milky sea

B) A canopy of stars

C) The depths of a well

D) A winter storm

2. What does the Doctor discover when he examines the First Blind Man’s eyes?

A) Tiny lesions on the cornea

B) Eyes in perfect condition

C) Milky cataract

D) Astigmatism and myopia

3. Why does the Girl With Dark Glasses kick the Car Thief?

A) He insulted her.

B) She tripped.

C) He fondled her.

D) He slapped the Boy With a Squint.

4. How does the Car Thief react when the Girl With Dark Glasses apologizes for injuring him?

A) He pleads with her to help him.

B) He says he hopes she dies.

C) He grabs her wrist and twists it.

D) He tells her to forget it.

5. What does the Doctor’s Wife persuade the soldiers to provide?

A) A spade

B) Toilet paper

C) Food for the newcomers

D) Antibiotics

6. Why can’t the internees open the windows to circulate the air?

A) There are no windows. 

B) They are too high.

C) They are boarded up.

D) The soldiers will shoot.

7. How do people believe the white disease is spreading?

A) From rubbing eyes with contaminated hands

B) From microbes in the air

C) By exchange of bodily fluids

D) By visual contact

8. Why does the news stop?

A) The batteries die.

B) An internee destroys the radio.

C) The announcer goes blind.

D) The old man turns off the radio in despair.

9. After taking all their valuables, what do the Hoodlums demand next of their victims?

A) They must clean up the excrement.

B) They must provide them with women.

C) They must turn over the Doctor to tend their sick.

D) They must give them their blankets.

10. What literary device is represented in the phrase, “like archangels surrounded by their own splendor”?

A) Personification

B) Simile

C) Anthropomorphism

D) Irony

11. How does the Doctor’s Wife find her way back to the shop where she left her group?

A) She follows a dog.

B) She sees a map.

C) She hears her husband calling her.

D) She follows markers she made using her own blood.

12. Why does the Old Woman shed tears?

A) She is lonely.

B) The dog ate her hen.

C) She cannot cook her meat.

D) Her vegetable garden is fouled.

13. What does the Doctor’s Wife serve in their best crystal?

A) Champagne

B) Water from the toilet cistern

C) Rainwater

D) Bottled water

14. What does the Girl With Dark Glasses leave for her parents to find if they should return?

A) A letter written by the Doctor’s Wife

B) Her dark glasses

C) A lock of her hair

D) A ribbon soaked in her perfume

15. After several attacks of nausea, where does the Doctor’s Wife ask her husband to take her for a rest? 

A) The empty supermarket

B) The grassy lawn in the square

C) A church

D) The doctor’s office

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How do the other characters behave toward the Girl With Dark Glasses after the Car Thief’s death? What might their attitudes suggest about the message the author wanted to convey?

2. How does the author describe the appearance of the eyes of the people struck by the white sickness? What might this choice symbolize?