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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Rasps.
(b) Trills.
(c) Screams.
(d) Booms.

3. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) Metal shavings.
(b) Melted plastic.
(c) Wood shavings.
(d) Paint.

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

5. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?
(a) A subterranean palace.
(b) A juggernaut.
(c) A bunker.
(d) A silo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?

2. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?

3. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?

4. Whom does the mayor say will be at the desk all night and for Holston to contact him if he changes his mind about the meal in Chapter 2?

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

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