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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 grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?
(a) “A hanging rack.”
(b) “A coat-rack.”
(c) “An anvil.”
(d) “A trapeze-like bar.”

2. Holston is described as having NOT done what the entire time he watched Allison die in Chapter 4?
(a) Staying still.
(b) Moving.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Crying.

3. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?
(a) A second spray-on lining.
(b) A chain-mail exterior.
(c) Kevlar boots.
(d) An aragonite helmet.

4. Holston wonders as he is being dressed by Nelson in Chapter 4 why the others have always complied when in this position. “Holston thought maybe that people went along because” of what reason?
(a) “They couldn’t believe it was happening.”
(b) “They wanted revenge.”
(c) “They believed that they deserved it.”
(d) “They believed they would find a way to escape.”

5. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “His childhood.”
(b) “The ocean.”
(c) “The smoke from a train.”
(d) “Poppy flowers.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many flights of stairs has Holston just bolted up in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?

4. Holston is sitting on “the lone steel bench” in what room in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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