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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

2. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?
(a) Deputy Marnes.
(b) Deputy Percy.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Deputy Conner.

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

4. For how long after Allison’s cleaning does the narrator say Holston “had waited, buying into her insanity, hoping she’d come back” in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) For the first three months.
(b) For the first week.
(c) For the first year.
(d) For the first month.

5. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?
(a) “The view from inside was a lie.”
(b) “The computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(c) “The view from inside was the truth.”
(d) “The leaders had killed all the children.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?

2. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

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

4. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?

5. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?

(see the answer key)

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