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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 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Predicament.

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

3. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A stapler.
(b) A lottery ticket.
(c) A handgun.
(d) A newspaper clipping.

4. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(b) “The endless earthquakes.”
(c) “Generations of traffic.”
(d) "Tears of crocodiles."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?

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. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?

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