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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?
(a) In the holding cell.
(b) On his dresser.
(c) At his mother’s house.
(d) At his mistress’s house.

2. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?
(a) “Bright.”
(b) “Clear.”
(c) “Pleasant.”
(d) “Blurry.”

3. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?
(a) “Solid steel.”
(b) “Solid earth.”
(c) “Solid concrete.”
(d) “Solid iron.”

4. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Methodical.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Mechanical.
(d) Intrinsic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?

2. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

3. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?

4. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?

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

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