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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?
(a) “Cooking.”
(b) “Sleuthing.”
(c) “Cleaning.”
(d) “Auto repair.”

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Vista.
(b) Incumbent.
(c) Partition.
(d) Assemblage.

3. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?
(a) Pots and pans.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Work files.
(d) Winter coats.

4. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Torture rooms.
(b) Purification rooms.
(c) Airlock chambers.
(d) Reading rooms.

5. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Trills.
(b) Rasps.
(c) Screams.
(d) Booms.

Short Answer Questions

1. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?

2. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?

3. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?

4. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?

5. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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