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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) “Sleuthing.”
(b) “Cleaning.”
(c) “Auto repair.”
(d) “Cooking.”

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

3. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Remonstration.
(d) Ablation.

4. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Muddy.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Marble.

5. 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) 8 or 9 feet tall.
(b) 4 or 5 feet tall.
(c) 15 or 16 feet tall.
(d) 2 or 3 feet tall.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?

2. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?

3. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?

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

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

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