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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) A hazard suit.
(b) A pinstriped suit.
(c) A blue dress.
(d) Coveralls.

2. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Expel.
(c) Coalesce.
(d) Vibrate.

3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Rebar.
(c) Bunker.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) Melted plastic.
(b) Wood shavings.
(c) Metal shavings.
(d) Paint.

5. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?
(a) “A broomstick.”
(b) “A sword.”
(c) “A needle.”
(d) “A dagger.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Holston described as wearing underneath the outfit Nelson dresses him in, in Chapter 4?

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

4. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?

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