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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Paul.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Peter.

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

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

5. The word “gyre” used in Chapter 5 refers to what kind of shape?
(a) A spiral.
(b) A cube.
(c) A hexagon.
(d) A sphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holston recalls watching his wife get dressed for her cleaning through what, in Chapter 4?

2. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?

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

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?

5. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?

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