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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?
(a) “You write a will.”
(b) “You forget about her.”
(c) “You get some sleep.”
(d) “You prepare yourself.”

2. 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.

3. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

4. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

5. 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) Simile.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?

3. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?

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

5. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?

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