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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?
(a) Former dictator.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Uprising.
(d) Nuclear disaster.

2. What word in Chapter 3 refers to a serious disagreement or argument?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Precision.
(d) Genocide.

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

4. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Donna.
(d) Michelle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5, “There could be people outside… They could be” doing what?

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

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

4. Allison tells Holston that once she is released for the cleaning the next day, she will return for what, in Chapter 5?

5. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?

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