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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period is noted in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Present time.
(b) 5 years prior.
(c) 3 years prior.
(d) 7 years prior.

2. What does Holston recall Allison using to clean with during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) A large mop.
(b) A bristle broom.
(c) Wool pads.
(d) A scrub brush.

3. How many cameras are described atop the tower of the silo in Chapter 6?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?
(a) Peripheral.
(b) Poisonous.
(c) Calsonic.
(d) Incendiary.

5. 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 trapeze-like bar.”
(c) “A coat-rack.”
(d) “An anvil.”

6. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Bunker.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Rebar.

7. What word in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?
(a) Machinate.
(b) Persecute.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

8. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?
(a) “Emotional.”
(b) “Rancorous.”
(c) “Empty.”
(d) “Packed.”

9. In Chapter 5, the narrator says, “The enormous pent-up pressure of the place was now hissing through the seams in whispers.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Religious allusion.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Personification.

10. 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) Donna Parkins.
(b) Jack Brent.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Conner.

11. What time period is Chapter 4 said to take place in?
(a) Present time.
(b) 3 years prior.
(c) 4 years prior.
(d) 6 years prior.

12. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?
(a) Mannerism.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Juggernaut.

13. As Holston performs the cleaning of the silo cameras in Chapter 6, the narrator notes that “it wasn’t the feeling of betrayal that guided the wool in his hand in small circular motions. It was” what?
(a) “Pity.”
(b) “Fear.”
(c) “Love.”
(d) “Responsibility.”

14. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Clarke.
(b) No one.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Deputy Marnes.

15. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Precision.
(d) Klaxon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?

2. What does Allison say she wants to do when Holston tries talking to her as she’s detained on the floor in Chapter 5?

3. As Holston is about to exit the airlock for his cleaning, the narrator notes that the airlock area will be scrubbed clean and ready for the next cleaning by what time in Chapter 6?

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

5. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?

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