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

2. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?
(a) Klaxon.
(b) Precision.
(c) Polymer.
(d) Juggernaut.

3. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?
(a) Six decades ago.
(b) Two decades ago.
(c) A century and a half ago.
(d) A half of a century ago.

4. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) 5.
(b) 19.
(c) 8.
(d) 13.

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Pixel.
(d) Juggernaut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?

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

3. What color overwhelms the surroundings of the world outside the silo when Holston exits for his cleaning in Chapter 6?

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

5. What does Holston recall Allison clutching as she collapsed after her cleaning in Chapter 4?

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