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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) "Tears of crocodiles."
(b) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(c) “Generations of traffic.”
(d) “The endless earthquakes.”

2. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?
(a) In the holding cell.
(b) On his dresser.
(c) At his mother’s house.
(d) At his mistress’s house.

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

4. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

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

Short Answer 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?

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. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?

4. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

5. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?

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