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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?
(a) “The how of the cleaning.”
(b) “The when of the cleaning.”
(c) “The past of the cleaning.”
(d) “The why of the cleaning.”

5. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?
(a) Deputy Marnes.
(b) Deputy Conner.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Deputy Percy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cameras are described atop the tower of the silo in Chapter 6?

2. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?

3. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?

4. When Holston becomes freed from his helmet in Chapter 7, the world around him is described as having changed to what color?

5. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?

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