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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 refers to a strong and fast-moving stream of water or liquid?
(a) Derivative.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) Flagrancy.
(d) Torrent.

2. 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 year.
(b) For the first month.
(c) For the first week.
(d) For the first three months.

3. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A blue hazard suit.
(b) A white lab coat.
(c) A pinstriped suit.
(d) A white hazard suit.

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

5. What time period is Chapter 4 said to take place in?
(a) Present time.
(b) 4 years prior.
(c) 6 years prior.
(d) 3 years prior.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?

5. When Holston looks back at the silo from the outside in Chapter 6, “All that stood behind him was a small mound of concrete, a tower” no more than how many feet tall?

(see the answer key)

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