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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 say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Deputy.
(b) Sheriff.
(c) Police Chief.
(d) Mayor.

2. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The buffalo.”
(b) “The clouds.”
(c) “The cattle.”
(d) “The birds.”

3. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?
(a) A spaceship terminal.
(b) The windows of the silo.
(c) A crumbling city over the horizon.
(d) An empty school bus on the hill.

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

5. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Meaningful.”
(b) “Accountable.”
(c) “Avoidable.”
(d) “Important.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Nelson and Holston first make eye contact in Chapter 4, Holston notes that Nelson looks fearful. What does Holston believe Nelson is afraid of?

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. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?

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

(see the answer key)

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