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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) The Mississippi River.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Peanut butter.

2. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Sharon’s son.
(b) Allison’s son.
(c) Paula’s son.
(d) Susan’s son.

3. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?
(a) Diamond-shaped.
(b) Pie-shaped.
(c) Hexagon-shaped.
(d) Box-shaped.

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Lateral.
(b) Conducive.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Primal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?

2. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?

3. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?

5. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

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