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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Religion.
(d) Superstition.

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

3. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?
(a) "Revenge."
(b) “Wedding day.”
(c) “Promotion.”
(d) “Salvation.”

4. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?
(a) The zoo.
(b) The schoolroom.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The nursery.

5. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?
(a) The nursery and the gardens.
(b) The cellar and the attic.
(c) The dormitories and the atrium.
(d) The cafeteria and lounge.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?

5. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?

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