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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Allison says to Holston when he suggests that maybe she shouldn’t be doing this work, “If I don’t piece it together now, somebody else will at some point. You can’t put” what “back in the bottle”?
(a) “The poison.”
(b) “The genie.”
(c) “The bee.”
(d) “Pandora.”

2. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?
(a) The condemned.
(b) The forgiven.
(c) The enchanted.
(d) The omniscient.

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Avoidable.”
(b) “Important.”
(c) “Accountable.”
(d) “Meaningful.”

4. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5 that “every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re” what?
(a) “The bad people.”
(b) “Weaker than we seem.”
(c) “Being held prisoner.”
(d) “In the bad place right here.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?

3. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?

4. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?

5. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?

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