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

2. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) The present time.
(b) 4 years earlier.
(c) 3 years earlier.
(d) 6 years earlier.

3. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Police Chief.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Deputy.

4. Holston is sitting on “the lone steel bench” in what room in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) His office.
(b) The airlock.
(c) The library.
(d) The cafeteria.

5. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A newspaper clipping.
(b) A lottery ticket.
(c) A stapler.
(d) A handgun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time period is noted in the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

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

4. What color paint is described on the airlock door in Chapter 5?

5. What person who had been sent to cleaning is described in Chapter 4 as having “been belligerent and hostile right up to the end”?

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