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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) Denouement.
(d) Generation.

2. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?
(a) 2 dimes.
(b) 2 flowers.
(c) 2 pennies.
(d) 2 potatoes.

3. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?
(a) “Sleuthing.”
(b) “Cooking.”
(c) “Cleaning.”
(d) “Auto repair.”

4. 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?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) Apple of discord.
(c) Birds of a feather.
(d) A bitter pill.

5. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?
(a) The cellar and the attic.
(b) The cafeteria and lounge.
(c) The nursery and the gardens.
(d) The dormitories and the atrium.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?

3. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?

4. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?

5. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?

(see the answer key)

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