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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) Melted plastic.
(b) Wood shavings.
(c) Metal shavings.
(d) Paint.

2. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Judge.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Postman.

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Incumbent.
(b) Vista.
(c) Assemblage.
(d) Partition.

4. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?
(a) The cellar and the attic.
(b) The nursery and the gardens.
(c) The dormitories and the atrium.
(d) The cafeteria and lounge.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Thoroughfare.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Ablation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?

4. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?

5. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?

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