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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Bunker.
(d) Rebar.

2. For how long after Allison’s cleaning does the narrator say Holston “had waited, buying into her insanity, hoping she’d come back” in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) For the first year.
(b) For the first month.
(c) For the first three months.
(d) For the first week.

3. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Clarke.
(b) No one.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Deputy Marnes.

4. When Allison indicates to Holston to come sit by her in the holding cell in Chapter 5, he considers briefly before entering that he could receive what punishment for such an action?
(a) He could be beheaded.
(b) He could be sent to cleaning.
(c) He could be put in prison.
(d) He could be put in isolation.

5. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?
(a) “The view from inside was a lie.”
(b) “The computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(c) “The view from inside was the truth.”
(d) “The leaders had killed all the children.”

6. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 4 years earlier.
(b) 3 years earlier.
(c) 6 years earlier.
(d) The present time.

7. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?
(a) The holding cell.
(b) The library.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) The school bus.

8. When Holston looks back at the silo from the outside in Chapter 6, “All that stood behind him was a small mound of concrete, a tower” no more than how many feet tall?
(a) 2 or 3 feet tall.
(b) 4 or 5 feet tall.
(c) 8 or 9 feet tall.
(d) 15 or 16 feet tall.

9. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?
(a) Calsonic.
(b) Incendiary.
(c) Poisonous.
(d) Peripheral.

10. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Incinerate.
(c) Polymer.
(d) Retribution.

11. Who, along with two staff employees, is holding Allison down on the floor when Holston arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Mayor Jahns.
(c) Conner.
(d) Donna Parkins.

12. What does Allison whisper from the darkened corner of her cell after hours of complete silence in Chapter 5?
(a) “I need out.”
(b) “I forgot.”
(c) “I love you.”
(d) “It’s not real.”

13. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Retrieval.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Perpetuate.

14. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a mathematical determination of the number of something?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Calculation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Articulation.

15. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A white lab coat.
(b) A blue hazard suit.
(c) A white hazard suit.
(d) A pinstriped suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?

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

3. As Holston performs the cleaning of the silo cameras in Chapter 6, the narrator notes that “it wasn’t the feeling of betrayal that guided the wool in his hand in small circular motions. It was” what?

4. Holston is described as having NOT done what the entire time he watched Allison die in Chapter 4?

5. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?

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