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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?
(a) “Solid steel.”
(b) “Solid earth.”
(c) “Solid iron.”
(d) “Solid concrete.”

2. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Reading rooms.
(b) Purification rooms.
(c) Airlock chambers.
(d) Torture rooms.

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

4. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Sharon’s son.
(b) Paula’s son.
(c) Susan’s son.
(d) Allison’s son.

5. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small trapezoids.
(c) Small spigots.
(d) Small hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?

2. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?

4. 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?

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?

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