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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) A blue dress.
(b) A pinstriped suit.
(c) Coveralls.
(d) A hazard suit.

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

3. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Police Chief.
(c) Deputy.
(d) Sheriff.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?

2. Whom does the mayor say will be at the desk all night and for Holston to contact him if he changes his mind about the meal in Chapter 2?

3. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?

4. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?

5. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?

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