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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?
(a) “The view from inside was a lie.”
(b) “The leaders had killed all the children.”
(c) “The computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(d) “The view from inside was the truth.”

2. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?
(a) Pots and pans.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Work files.
(d) Winter coats.

3. Holston’s suit is described as being what, as he attempts to make it up the hillside in Chapter 7?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Airy.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Cumbersome.

4. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?
(a) “Such an existence.”
(b) “The footprints of babes.”
(c) “The final days.”
(d) “Walking upon.”

5. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5, “There could be people outside… They could be” doing what?
(a) “Waiting for me.”
(b) “Preparing to attack.”
(c) “Planning to kill us.”
(d) “Watching us.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?

2. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?

4. 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?

5. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?

(see the answer key)

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