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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Klaxon.
(d) Precision.

3. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. 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”?
(a) A second spray-on lining.
(b) Kevlar boots.
(c) A chain-mail exterior.
(d) An aragonite helmet.

5. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?
(a) “Finding out the truth of the past.”
(b) “Progressing forward.”
(c) “Repeating it.”
(d) “Discovering the genocide.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?

2. Who, along with two staff employees, is holding Allison down on the floor when Holston arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?

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

5. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?

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