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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Calling her father.
(b) Going out after her.
(c) Remarrying.
(d) Calling his mother.

2. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?
(a) A spaceship terminal.
(b) The windows of the silo.
(c) An empty school bus on the hill.
(d) A crumbling city over the horizon.

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

4. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?
(a) “Another revolt of the people?”
(b) “The lives of the children?”
(c) “The meaning of existence?”
(d) “A loss of power, of control?”

5. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Looking into the camera and waving at him.
(b) Screaming hysterically and beating the camera.
(c) Taking off her helmet and smiling.
(d) Breaking the camera and running.

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

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

8. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?
(a) Remonstration.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Articulation.

9. Who handles the procedural work for Allison while Holston paces outside the bars of the holding cell in Chapter 5?
(a) Deputy Marnes and Mayor Jahns.
(b) Clarke and Donna Parkins.
(c) Percy and Deputy Marnes.
(d) Nelson and Conner.

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

11. 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 computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(b) “The leaders had killed all the children.”
(c) “The view from inside was the truth.”
(d) “The view from inside was a lie.”

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

13. 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 animal part of his mind.”
(b) “The rational part of his mind.”
(c) “The vulnerable part of his mind.”
(d) “The analytical part of his mind.”

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

15. What color helmet does Holston recall Allison wearing during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Blue.
(b) Silver.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what floor of the silo is the dirt farm where Holston’s parents were sent after their deaths?

2. 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?

3. Upon observing his wife’s state in Chapter 5, Holston considers, “There was nothing left for it but to lock her up, even as he wanted nothing else but room enough to” do what?

4. 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?

5. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?

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