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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston recalls watching his wife get dressed for her cleaning through what, in Chapter 4?
(a) The attic window.
(b) The security cameras.
(c) The bathroom curtain.
(d) The airlock’s porthole.

2. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Incinerate.
(d) Retribution.

3. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 20.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

4. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?
(a) “Caring.”
(b) “Loving.”
(c) “Cleaning.”
(d) "Dying."

5. What person who had been sent to cleaning is described in Chapter 4 as having “been belligerent and hostile right up to the end”?
(a) Conner.
(b) Jack Brent.
(c) Donna Parkins.
(d) Mayor Jahns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?

5. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

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