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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As Holston performs the cleaning of the silo cameras in Chapter 6, the narrator notes that “it wasn’t the feeling of betrayal that guided the wool in his hand in small circular motions. It was” what?
(a) “Pity.”
(b) “Responsibility.”
(c) “Fear.”
(d) “Love.”

3. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?
(a) “The meaning of existence?”
(b) “The lives of the children?”
(c) “A loss of power, of control?”
(d) “Another revolt of the people?”

4. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?
(a) Theory.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Law.
(d) Juggernaut.

5. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?

3. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?

4. What word in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?

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

(see the answer key)

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