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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?
(a) Cyclone.
(b) Pyramid.
(c) Spire.
(d) Hexagon.

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Precision.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Articulation.

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

4. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The cattle.”
(b) “The clouds.”
(c) “The birds.”
(d) “The buffalo.”

5. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Pennies.
(c) Garlic.
(d) Feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?

2. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

3. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

4. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?

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

(see the answer key)

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