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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the staff employee that corrals Allison’s feet to prevent her from kicking in Chapter 5?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Jack Brent.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Percy.

2. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?
(a) Pennies.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Garlic.

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

4. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Breaking the camera and running.
(b) Looking into the camera and waving at him.
(c) Taking off her helmet and smiling.
(d) Screaming hysterically and beating the camera.

5. What word in Chapter 3 refers to a serious disagreement or argument?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Precision.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Genocide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?

3. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

4. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?

5. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

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