102 pages 3 hours read

José Saramago

Blindness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

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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.