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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) A blue dress.
(b) A pinstriped suit.
(c) A hazard suit.
(d) Coveralls.

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Thoroughfare.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Ablation.

3. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Predicament.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

5. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Airlock chambers.
(b) Purification rooms.
(c) Reading rooms.
(d) Torture rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

2. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

3. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?

4. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?

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

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