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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor Jahns.
(b) Mayor Parkins.
(c) Mayor Nelson.
(d) Mayor Percy.

2. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?
(a) “The why of the cleaning.”
(b) “The how of the cleaning.”
(c) “The when of the cleaning.”
(d) “The past of the cleaning.”

3. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Incongruous.
(b) Mechanical.
(c) Intrinsic.
(d) Methodical.

4. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Conducive.
(c) Primal.
(d) Lateral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

2. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?

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

4. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

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

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