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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?
(a) Kill his boss.
(b) Find his wife.
(c) Die.
(d) Get revenge.

2. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Created the child lottery.
(b) Invented computer programs.
(c) Wiped the servers.
(d) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.

3. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Savage.
(b) Ablative.
(c) Inconsequential.
(d) Incongruous.

4. How many cameras are described atop the tower of the silo in Chapter 6?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the narrator says, “The enormous pent-up pressure of the place was now hissing through the seams in whispers.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

2. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?

4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?

5. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?

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