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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Holston looks back at the silo from the outside in Chapter 6, “All that stood behind him was a small mound of concrete, a tower” no more than how many feet tall?
(a) 2 or 3 feet tall.
(b) 8 or 9 feet tall.
(c) 4 or 5 feet tall.
(d) 15 or 16 feet tall.

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

3. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?
(a) “Cleaning.”
(b) “Auto repair.”
(c) “Cooking.”
(d) “Sleuthing.”

4. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?
(a) “Packed.”
(b) “Rancorous.”
(c) “Empty.”
(d) “Emotional.”

5. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(b) “Black, sooty curtains.”
(c) “Heavy, dark draperies.”
(d) “Pristine floral curtains.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon observing his wife’s state in Chapter 5, Holston considers, “There was nothing left for it but to lock her up, even as he wanted nothing else but room enough to” do what?

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

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to the state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect?

4. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?

5. What does Allison say she’s already published “on how to retrieve deleted and overwritten files” in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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