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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Savage.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Intrinsic.

2. Holston recalls watching his wife get dressed for her cleaning through what, in Chapter 4?
(a) The bathroom curtain.
(b) The security cameras.
(c) The airlock’s porthole.
(d) The attic window.

3. When the narrator says that Holston feels pressure to find someone to send to cleaning in Chapter 3, it is stated, “It was growing, like steam building up in the silo, ready to launch something out.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Simile.

4. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?
(a) Geoponic gardens.
(b) Aeroponic gardens.
(c) Hydroponic gardens.
(d) Fluoride gardens.

5. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Created the child lottery.
(b) Wiped the servers.
(c) Invented computer programs.
(d) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?

2. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?

3. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?

5. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?

(see the answer key)

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