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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Cyclone.
(b) Pyramid.
(c) Hexagon.
(d) Spire.

2. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?
(a) “Salvation.”
(b) “Promotion.”
(c) “Wedding day.”
(d) "Revenge."

3. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Sheriff.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Deputy.
(d) Police Chief.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Thoroughfare.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Ablation.

5. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) A blue dress.
(b) A pinstriped suit.
(c) Coveralls.
(d) A hazard suit.

6. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A handgun.
(b) A newspaper clipping.
(c) A stapler.
(d) A lottery ticket.

7. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

8. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The buffalo.”
(b) “The cattle.”
(c) “The clouds.”
(d) “The birds.”

9. What does Allison say to Holston “is always good” in Chapter 3?
(a) “Loving one another.”
(b) “Respect for authority.”
(c) “Challenging authority.”
(d) “Knowing the truth.”

10. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Wiped the servers.
(b) Invented computer programs.
(c) Created the child lottery.
(d) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.

11. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?
(a) A juggernaut.
(b) A subterranean palace.
(c) A bunker.
(d) A silo.

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

13. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration.

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

15. 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) Juggernaut.
(b) Generation.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?

2. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

3. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?

4. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?

5. When the narrator says that Holston feels pressure to find someone to send to cleaning in Chapter 3, it is stated, “It was growing, like steam building up in the silo, ready to launch something out.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

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