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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The word “gyre” used in Chapter 5 refers to what kind of shape?
(a) A cube.
(b) A sphere.
(c) A spiral.
(d) A hexagon.

2. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?
(a) “Discovering the genocide.”
(b) “Finding out the truth of the past.”
(c) “Progressing forward.”
(d) “Repeating it.”

3. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Retrieval.
(d) Accordance.

4. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Torture rooms.
(b) Reading rooms.
(c) Purification rooms.
(d) Airlock chambers.

5. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?
(a) The library.
(b) The nursery.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The holding cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?

2. What kind of gas is pumped into the airlock after the warning horn in Chapter 6?

3. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?

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

5. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?

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