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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Breaking the camera and running.
(b) Screaming hysterically and beating the camera.
(c) Taking off her helmet and smiling.
(d) Looking into the camera and waving at him.

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”?
(a) A chain-mail exterior.
(b) A second spray-on lining.
(c) Kevlar boots.
(d) An aragonite helmet.

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?
(a) Pixel.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Juggernaut.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

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

3. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?

4. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?

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

(see the answer key)

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