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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor Parkins.
(b) Mayor Jahns.
(c) Mayor Percy.
(d) Mayor Nelson.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?
(a) “Loving.”
(b) "Dying."
(c) “Caring.”
(d) “Cleaning.”

4. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?
(a) A subterranean palace.
(b) A silo.
(c) A juggernaut.
(d) A bunker.

5. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) The Mississippi River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?

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

3. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?

4. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

5. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?

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