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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Precision.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Articulation.

3. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “The ocean.”
(b) “His childhood.”
(c) “The smoke from a train.”
(d) “Poppy flowers.”

4. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Incongruous.
(b) Ablative.
(c) Savage.
(d) Inconsequential.

5. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?
(a) A spiral staircase leading up.
(b) A concrete ramp leading up.
(c) A well in rural New England.
(d) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who betrays a friend, country, or principle?

3. 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?

4. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?

5. What time period is Chapter 4 said to take place in?

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