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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(b) “Pristine floral curtains.”
(c) “Black, sooty curtains.”
(d) “Heavy, dark draperies.”

2. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Savage.

3. Allison says to Holston when he suggests that maybe she shouldn’t be doing this work, “If I don’t piece it together now, somebody else will at some point. You can’t put” what “back in the bottle”?
(a) “The poison.”
(b) “The bee.”
(c) “The genie.”
(d) “Pandora.”

4. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Religion.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?

2. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?

3. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?

4. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?

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

(see the answer key)

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