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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?
(a) “Powerful.”
(b) “Historical.”
(c) “Original.”
(d) “Just.”

2. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?
(a) 4 years earlier.
(b) 3 years earlier.
(c) 2 years earlier.
(d) 5 years earlier.

3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Bunker.
(c) Rebar.
(d) Ablation.

4. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?

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

3. What does Allison whisper from the darkened corner of her cell after hours of complete silence in Chapter 5?

4. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?

5. Allison tells Holston in the holding cell in Chapter 5 that she’s seen the programs they use. “The ones that make pictures on the screens that look” what?

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