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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?
(a) The assistant deputy.
(b) Governor.
(c) Head of the cleaning lab.
(d) Mayor.

2. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor Parkins.
(b) Mayor Nelson.
(c) Mayor Percy.
(d) Mayor Jahns.

3. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?
(a) A spiral staircase leading up.
(b) A concrete ramp leading up.
(c) A well in rural New England.
(d) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.

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

5. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?
(a) Methodical.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Futile.
(d) Precise.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?

(see the answer key)

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