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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?
(a) The zoo.
(b) The schoolroom.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The nursery.

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

3. 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.”

4. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?
(a) Paula.
(b) Maria.
(c) Allison.
(d) Elizabeth.

5. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Clarke.
(b) Paul.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?

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

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

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

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