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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holston recall Allison using to clean with during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) A bristle broom.
(b) Wool pads.
(c) A scrub brush.
(d) A large mop.

2. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Futile.
(c) Precise.
(d) Methodical.

3. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?
(a) “Just.”
(b) “Original.”
(c) “Historical.”
(d) “Powerful.”

4. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?
(a) “You forget about her.”
(b) “You get some sleep.”
(c) “You write a will.”
(d) “You prepare yourself.”

5. Allison says in Chapter 3 that there was a revolt just about how often?
(a) Every 15 years.
(b) Every 20 years.
(c) Every 10 years.
(d) Every 4 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?

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

4. The narrator describes the hissing of a canister as what substance is loaded into the flushing chambers in Chapter 5?

5. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?

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