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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Primal.
(b) Lateral.
(c) Conducive.
(d) Ablative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?

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

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?

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

5. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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