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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 does Allison use in Chapter 3 to refer to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Generation.
(d) Denouement.

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

3. What does Allison say to Holston “is always good” in Chapter 3?
(a) “Respect for authority.”
(b) “Loving one another.”
(c) “Challenging authority.”
(d) “Knowing the truth.”

4. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. 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?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?

2. 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?

3. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?

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. Allison says in Chapter 3 that there was a revolt just about how often?

(see the answer key)

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