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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.
(b) Created the child lottery.
(c) Invented computer programs.
(d) Wiped the servers.

2. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small spigots.
(c) Small trapezoids.
(d) Small hearts.

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

4. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Booms.
(b) Rasps.
(c) Trills.
(d) Screams.

5. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?
(a) A half of a century ago.
(b) Six decades ago.
(c) A century and a half ago.
(d) Two decades ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idiom is used in Chapter 3 to refer to a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prediction itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior?

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. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?

4. What does Allison say she’s already published “on how to retrieve deleted and overwritten files” in Chapter 3?

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?

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