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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 in Chapter 3 refers to a serious disagreement or argument?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Precision.

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 hearts.
(b) Small trapezoids.
(c) Small diamonds.
(d) Small spigots.

3. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?
(a) Aeroponic gardens.
(b) Hydroponic gardens.
(c) Fluoride gardens.
(d) Geoponic gardens.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?
(a) Spire.
(b) Hexagon.
(c) Pyramid.
(d) Cyclone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?

2. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?

3. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?

4. 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?

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

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