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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Savage.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Inconsequential.
(d) Ablative.

2. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?
(a) “Solid earth.”
(b) “Solid concrete.”
(c) “Solid steel.”
(d) “Solid iron.”

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

4. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?
(a) Children’s books.
(b) Religious books.
(c) History books.
(d) Science textbooks.

5. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?
(a) Deputy Conner.
(b) Deputy Jahns.
(c) Deputy Nelson.
(d) Deputy Marnes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?

2. 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”?

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?

4. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?

5. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?

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