1. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to refer to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Generation.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Juggernaut.

2. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small spigots.
(c) Small trapezoids.
(d) Small hearts.

3. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?
(a) Deputy Conner.
(b) Deputy Marnes.
(c) Deputy Nelson.
(d) Deputy Jahns.

4. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?
(a) “The children were screaming.”
(b) “The children were shooting.”
(c) “The children were playing.”
(d) “The children were weeping.”

5. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Expel.
(c) Vibrate.
(d) Coalesce.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?

3. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?

4. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?

5. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?

(see the answer key)

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