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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Paul.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Peter.
(d) Andrew.

2. What person who had been sent to cleaning is described in Chapter 4 as having “been belligerent and hostile right up to the end”?
(a) Mayor Jahns.
(b) Jack Brent.
(c) Donna Parkins.
(d) Conner.

3. 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) Cyclone.
(b) Hexagon.
(c) Spire.
(d) Pyramid.

4. What color overwhelms the surroundings of the world outside the silo when Holston exits for his cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

5. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A blue hazard suit.
(b) A white lab coat.
(c) A pinstriped suit.
(d) A white hazard suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?

4. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?

5. What kind of gas is pumped into the airlock after the warning horn in Chapter 6?

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