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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to the state of feeling or showing remorse?
(a) Regretful.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Articulate.

2. Whom does the mayor say will be at the desk all night and for Holston to contact him if he changes his mind about the meal in Chapter 2?
(a) Chief Conner.
(b) Deputy Marnes.
(c) Deputy Nelson.
(d) Mayor Clarke.

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

4. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?
(a) The airlock.
(b) The library.
(c) The holding cell.
(d) The nursery.

5. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?
(a) “The past of the cleaning.”
(b) “The why of the cleaning.”
(c) “The when of the cleaning.”
(d) “The how of the cleaning.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?

3. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?

4. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?

5. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a mathematical determination of the number of something?

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