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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Thoroughfare.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?
(a) Deputy Conner.
(b) Deputy Nelson.
(c) Deputy Marnes.
(d) Deputy Jahns.

3. What color paint is described on the airlock door in Chapter 5?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

4. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?
(a) A spiral staircase leading up.
(b) A well in rural New England.
(c) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.
(d) A concrete ramp leading up.

5. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?
(a) “A sword.”
(b) “A needle.”
(c) “A broomstick.”
(d) “A dagger.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?

2. What is Holston described as wearing underneath the outfit Nelson dresses him in, in Chapter 4?

3. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to the state of feeling or showing remorse?

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

5. Holston is described as having NOT done what the entire time he watched Allison die in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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