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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 1, “And he thought, not for the first time, that neither life nor staircase had been meant for” what?
(a) “The footprints of babes.”
(b) “The final days.”
(c) “Walking upon.”
(d) “Such an existence.”

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

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Articulation.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Precision.
(d) Juggernaut.

4. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Denouement.

5. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) 19.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

4. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?

5. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?

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