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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Assemblage.
(b) Partition.
(c) Vista.
(d) Incumbent.

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Retrieval.
(d) Accordance.

3. Allison says to Holston when he suggests that maybe she shouldn’t be doing this work, “If I don’t piece it together now, somebody else will at some point. You can’t put” what “back in the bottle”?
(a) “Pandora.”
(b) “The genie.”
(c) “The bee.”
(d) “The poison.”

4. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Police Chief.
(b) Deputy.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Mayor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to refer to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively?

2. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

3. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?

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

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