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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Simile.

2. What idiom is used in Chapter 3 to refer to a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prediction itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior?
(a) A bitter pill.
(b) Birds of a feather.
(c) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) Apple of discord.

3. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to the state of feeling or showing remorse?
(a) Regretful.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Intrinsic.
(d) Vengeful.

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Predicament.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holston recall Allison using to clean with during her cleaning in Chapter 4?

2. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?

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

4. What is Holston described as wearing underneath the outfit Nelson dresses him in, in Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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