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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) “Generations of traffic.”
(b) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(c) "Tears of crocodiles."
(d) “The endless earthquakes.”

2. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “The smoke from a train.”
(b) “His childhood.”
(c) “The ocean.”
(d) “Poppy flowers.”

3. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

4. 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) Hexagon-shaped.
(b) Diamond-shaped.
(c) Pie-shaped.
(d) Box-shaped.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?

3. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?

4. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

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

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