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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The clouds.”
(b) “The buffalo.”
(c) “The birds.”
(d) “The cattle.”

2. What color overwhelms the surroundings of the world outside the silo when Holston exits for his cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

3. 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) Going out after her.
(b) Calling her father.
(c) Calling his mother.
(d) Remarrying.

4. For how long after Allison’s cleaning does the narrator say Holston “had waited, buying into her insanity, hoping she’d come back” in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) For the first week.
(b) For the first month.
(c) For the first three months.
(d) For the first year.

5. What does Holston recall Allison clutching as she collapsed after her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Her boots.
(b) Her oxygen tank.
(c) Her gloves.
(d) Her helmet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color helmet does Holston recall Allison wearing during her cleaning in Chapter 4?

2. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?

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

4. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?

5. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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