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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Allison say to Holston “is always good” in Chapter 3?
(a) “Knowing the truth.”
(b) “Challenging authority.”
(c) “Respect for authority.”
(d) “Loving one another.”

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

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to the state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Dilapidated.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Corrupted.

4. What word in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Machinate.

5. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 3.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?

3. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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