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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Predicament.

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

3. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Donna.
(d) Andrea.

4. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Accountable.”
(b) “Important.”
(c) “Avoidable.”
(d) “Meaningful.”

5. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?
(a) Box-shaped.
(b) Hexagon-shaped.
(c) Diamond-shaped.
(d) Pie-shaped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do 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. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

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

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

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