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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 road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Thoroughfare.

2. 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) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Assonance.

3. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Muddy.
(c) Marble.
(d) Plastic.

4. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Peter.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Paul.
(d) Andrew.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Partition.
(b) Incumbent.
(c) Assemblage.
(d) Vista.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?

2. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?

3. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?

4. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

5. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?

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