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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Allison says to Holston in Chapter 5, “There is no uprising, not really, there’s just” what?
(a) “A gradual leak.”
(b) “Truth.”
(c) “A coup.”
(d) “People who need out.”

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

3. Allison says to Holston when he suggests that maybe she shouldn’t be doing this work, “If I don’t piece it together now, somebody else will at some point. You can’t put” what “back in the bottle”?
(a) “The genie.”
(b) “The bee.”
(c) “The poison.”
(d) “Pandora.”

4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Retrieval.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Accordance.

5. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Savage.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Intrinsic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?

2. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?

3. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?

4. What does Holston recall Allison clutching as she collapsed after her cleaning in Chapter 4?

5. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?

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