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

2. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Sheriff.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Police Chief.
(d) Deputy.

3. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small spigots.
(c) Small hearts.
(d) Small trapezoids.

4. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?
(a) “Clear.”
(b) “Bright.”
(c) “Blurry.”
(d) “Pleasant.”

5. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Carbon Monoxide.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. What does “IT” stand for in Chapter 3?

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?

4. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?

5. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?

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