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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 describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Alliteration.

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

3. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) "Tears of crocodiles."
(b) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(c) “Generations of traffic.”
(d) “The endless earthquakes.”

4. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?
(a) On his dresser.
(b) At his mother’s house.
(c) At his mistress’s house.
(d) In the holding cell.

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) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Denouement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?

2. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?

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

4. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?

5. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?

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