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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many flights of stairs has Holston just bolted up in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. Who, along with two staff employees, is holding Allison down on the floor when Holston arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Mayor Jahns.
(b) Conner.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Donna Parkins.

3. What is said to cause the metal groan that Holston hears as he prepares to exit for cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) The cyborg children.
(b) Pistons in the walls.
(c) The computer system crashing.
(d) Robots outside the room.

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

5. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?
(a) The library.
(b) The cafeteria.
(c) The school bus.
(d) The holding cell.

6. What does Allison say she wants to do when Holston tries talking to her as she’s detained on the floor in Chapter 5?
(a) Have a child.
(b) Go out.
(c) Return home.
(d) Call her mother.

7. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?
(a) Precision.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Ablation.

8. Holston recalls watching his wife get dressed for her cleaning through what, in Chapter 4?
(a) The attic window.
(b) The airlock’s porthole.
(c) The security cameras.
(d) The bathroom curtain.

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

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

11. What part of Holston’s mind is described in Chapter 4 as being not “made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of”?
(a) “The vulnerable part of his mind.”
(b) “The analytical part of his mind.”
(c) “The animal part of his mind.”
(d) “The rational part of his mind.”

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

13. What kind of gas is pumped into the airlock after the warning horn in Chapter 6?
(a) Argon.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Helium.
(d) Carbon monoxide.

14. 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.

15. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(b) “Heavy, dark draperies.”
(c) “Pristine floral curtains.”
(d) “Black, sooty curtains.”

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?

2. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?

3. What does Holston grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?

4. When Nelson and Holston first make eye contact in Chapter 4, Holston notes that Nelson looks fearful. What does Holston believe Nelson is afraid of?

5. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?

(see the answer keys)

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