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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?
(a) "Dying."
(b) “Caring.”
(c) “Loving.”
(d) “Cleaning.”

2. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?
(a) Theory.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Law.

3. 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 dormitories and the atrium.
(d) The nursery and the gardens.

4. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Donna.

5. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Assonance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?

2. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?

5. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

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