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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?
(a) Die.
(b) Find his wife.
(c) Kill his boss.
(d) Get revenge.

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

3. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. When the narrator says that Holston feels pressure to find someone to send to cleaning in Chapter 3, it is stated, “It was growing, like steam building up in the silo, ready to launch something out.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Assonance.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?
(a) Pyramid.
(b) Cyclone.
(c) Hexagon.
(d) Spire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?

2. What does Allison say she’s already published “on how to retrieve deleted and overwritten files” in Chapter 3?

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

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

5. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being no longer needed or useful?

(see the answer key)

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