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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Important.”
(b) “Meaningful.”
(c) “Avoidable.”
(d) “Accountable.”

2. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The buffalo.”
(b) “The birds.”
(c) “The clouds.”
(d) “The cattle.”

3. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?
(a) Expel.
(b) Vibrate.
(c) Coalesce.
(d) Juggernaut.

4. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Methodical.
(d) Intrinsic.

5. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?
(a) “The children were screaming.”
(b) “The children were playing.”
(c) “The children were shooting.”
(d) “The children were weeping.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?

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

4. 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”?

5. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?

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