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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?
(a) “Vengeance.”
(b) “Retribution.”
(c) “Convictions.”
(d) “Fears.”

2. 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) Kevlar boots.
(c) A second spray-on lining.
(d) A chain-mail exterior.

3. What does Holston grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?
(a) “A trapeze-like bar.”
(b) “An anvil.”
(c) “A hanging rack.”
(d) “A coat-rack.”

4. What is said to cause the metal groan that Holston hears as he prepares to exit for cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) The computer system crashing.
(b) The cyborg children.
(c) Pistons in the walls.
(d) Robots outside the room.

5. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “The ocean.”
(b) “Poppy flowers.”
(c) “The smoke from a train.”
(d) “His childhood.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?

2. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?

3. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?

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

5. Holston recalls watching his wife get dressed for her cleaning through what, in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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