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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?
(a) Articulation.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Mannerism.
(d) Ablation.

2. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor Jahns.
(b) Mayor Percy.
(c) Mayor Nelson.
(d) Mayor Parkins.

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?
(a) “Responsibility.”
(b) “Fear.”
(c) “Love.”
(d) “Pity.”

4. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?
(a) An aragonite helmet.
(b) A chain-mail exterior.
(c) Kevlar boots.
(d) A second spray-on lining.

5. 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) 15 or 16 feet tall.
(b) 4 or 5 feet tall.
(c) 2 or 3 feet tall.
(d) 8 or 9 feet tall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

2. Holston wonders as he is being dressed by Nelson in Chapter 4 why the others have always complied when in this position. “Holston thought maybe that people went along because” of what reason?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?

4. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

5. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?

(see the answer key)

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