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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holston recall Allison using to clean with during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) A large mop.
(b) A scrub brush.
(c) Wool pads.
(d) A bristle broom.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?
(a) “Cleaning.”
(b) “Loving.”
(c) “Caring.”
(d) "Dying."

3. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Savage.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Ablative.

4. 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) “A hanging rack.”
(c) “A coat-rack.”
(d) “An anvil.”

5. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?
(a) “The how of the cleaning.”
(b) “The past of the cleaning.”
(c) “The why of the cleaning.”
(d) “The when of the cleaning.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of gas is pumped into the airlock after the warning horn in Chapter 6?

2. What color helmet does Holston recall Allison wearing during her cleaning in Chapter 4?

3. 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”?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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