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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?
(a) “The children were screaming.”
(b) “The children were playing.”
(c) “The children were shooting.”
(d) “The children were weeping.”

2. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?
(a) Get revenge.
(b) Kill his boss.
(c) Find his wife.
(d) Die.

3. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being no longer needed or useful?
(a) Redundancy.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Periodical.

4. What idiom is used in Chapter 3 to refer to a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prediction itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior?
(a) Apple of discord.
(b) A bitter pill.
(c) Birds of a feather.
(d) Self-fulfilling prophecy.

5. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
(a) Religion.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?

2. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?

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

5. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?

Short Essay Questions

1. What setting is described at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

2. What is the principle setting of Wool? In what time period does the story take place?

3. How does the character of Allison relate to Holston’s objectives in the story?

4. What does Holston notice about the view from the holding room in the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. What is the protagonist doing when he is first introduced in Chapter 1?

6. How is Holston said to relate to his memories of childhood in Chapter 1?

7. What does Allison initially point out to Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3?

8. What does Allison’s work involve, as revealed in Chapter 3?

9. What sounds are described in the beginning of Chapter 1? What tone do these sounds set for the narrative?

10. What is one example the use of simile in Chapter 1? What purpose does this example serve?

(see the answer keys)

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