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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Maria.
(c) Paula.
(d) Allison.
2. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?
(a) “The children were playing.”
(b) “The children were shooting.”
(c) “The children were weeping.”
(d) “The children were screaming.”
3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Precision.
4. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Savage.
(d) Ablative.
5. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Conducive.
(b) Ablative.
(c) Lateral.
(d) Primal.
Short Answer Questions
1. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?
2. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?
3. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
4. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?
5. 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?
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