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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Precision.
(d) Articulation.

2. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?
(a) Sheriff.
(b) Judge.
(c) Postman.
(d) Butcher.

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

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

5. 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 concrete.”
(c) “Solid earth.”
(d) “Solid iron.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?

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

3. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?

4. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?

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

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