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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?
(a) “You get some sleep.”
(b) “You forget about her.”
(c) “You prepare yourself.”
(d) “You write a will.”

4. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?
(a) Precision.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Cowardice.
(d) Articulation.

5. 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) Poisonous.
(b) Peripheral.
(c) Incendiary.
(d) Calsonic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time period is Chapter 4 said to take place in?

2. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?

4. What part of Holston’s mind is described in Chapter 4 as being not “made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of”?

5. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

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