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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?
(a) The cellar and the attic.
(b) The dormitories and the atrium.
(c) The nursery and the gardens.
(d) The cafeteria and lounge.

2. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Police Chief.
(b) Sheriff.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Deputy.

3. 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?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Denouement.

4. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Mechanical.

5. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 50.
(b) 60.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?

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

5. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?

(see the answer key)

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