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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?
(a) On his dresser.
(b) At his mother’s house.
(c) In the holding cell.
(d) At his mistress’s house.

2. For how long after Allison’s cleaning does the narrator say Holston “had waited, buying into her insanity, hoping she’d come back” in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) For the first month.
(b) For the first week.
(c) For the first three months.
(d) For the first year.

3. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?
(a) “Promotion.”
(b) “Wedding day.”
(c) “Salvation.”
(d) "Revenge."

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?
(a) Poisonous.
(b) Calsonic.
(c) Incendiary.
(d) Peripheral.

5. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?
(a) A second spray-on lining.
(b) An aragonite helmet.
(c) A chain-mail exterior.
(d) Kevlar boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to the state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect?

5. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?

(see the answer key)

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