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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.
2. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Airlock chambers.
(b) Torture rooms.
(c) Purification rooms.
(d) Reading rooms.
3. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Incongruous.
(c) Savage.
(d) Ablative.
4. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 5 years earlier.
(c) 2 years earlier.
(d) 4 years earlier.
5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Partition.
(b) Incumbent.
(c) Vista.
(d) Assemblage.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?
2. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
3. When the narrator says that Holston feels pressure to find someone to send to cleaning in Chapter 3, it is stated, “It was growing, like steam building up in the silo, ready to launch something out.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
4. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?
5. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?
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