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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Meaningful.”
(b) “Accountable.”
(c) “Important.”
(d) “Avoidable.”

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

5. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?

2. 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?

3. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?

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

5. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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