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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?
(a) Paula.
(b) Allison.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Maria.

2. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 15.
(b) 3.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

3. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Lateral.
(b) Primal.
(c) Conducive.
(d) Ablative.

4. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small spigots.
(c) Small trapezoids.
(d) Small hearts.

5. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) “Generations of traffic.”
(b) “The endless earthquakes.”
(c) "Tears of crocodiles."
(d) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”

6. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?
(a) A juggernaut.
(b) A subterranean palace.
(c) A bunker.
(d) A silo.

7. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Meaningful.”
(b) “Important.”
(c) “Accountable.”
(d) “Avoidable.”

8. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 30.

9. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being barred from one’s native country?
(a) Retrieval.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Exile.
(d) Genocide.

10. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?
(a) Coalesced.
(b) Formative.
(c) Methodical.
(d) Intrinsic.

11. What does “IT” stand for in Chapter 3?
(a) Illiterate Technology.
(b) Internet Theory.
(c) Indication Technician.
(d) Information Technology.

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

13. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?
(a) “Just.”
(b) “Historical.”
(c) “Powerful.”
(d) “Original.”

14. 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?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) A bitter pill.
(c) Apple of discord.
(d) Birds of a feather.

15. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Allison’s son.
(b) Sharon’s son.
(c) Paula’s son.
(d) Susan’s son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?

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”?

3. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?

4. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?

5. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?

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