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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Governor.
(c) The assistant deputy.
(d) Head of the cleaning lab.

2. What time period is noted in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) 7 years prior.
(b) Present time.
(c) 5 years prior.
(d) 3 years prior.

3. 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) “Fear.”
(c) “Love.”
(d) “Pity.”

4. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Clarke.
(b) Mayor Jahns.
(c) No one.
(d) Deputy Marnes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?

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

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. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?

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