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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?
(a) Allison.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Maria.
(d) Paula.

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

4. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?
(a) “Bright.”
(b) “Pleasant.”
(c) “Clear.”
(d) “Blurry.”

5. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?
(a) A half of a century ago.
(b) Two decades ago.
(c) A century and a half ago.
(d) Six decades ago.

6. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Retrieval.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Accordance.

7. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?
(a) The schoolroom.
(b) The nursery.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The zoo.

8. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?
(a) 2 potatoes.
(b) 2 pennies.
(c) 2 flowers.
(d) 2 dimes.

9. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?
(a) Theory.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Law.

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

11. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Allison’s son.
(b) Susan’s son.
(c) Sharon’s son.
(d) Paula’s son.

12. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) 19.
(b) 13.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

13. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Trills.
(b) Booms.
(c) Rasps.
(d) Screams.

14. 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.”

15. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?
(a) “Solid concrete.”
(b) “Solid earth.”
(c) “Solid steel.”
(d) “Solid iron.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Allison says in Chapter 3 that there was a revolt just about how often?

4. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?

5. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?

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