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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small spigots.
(b) Small diamonds.
(c) Small hearts.
(d) Small trapezoids.

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

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

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Thoroughfare.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?

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

4. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?

5. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?

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