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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a strong and fast-moving stream of water or liquid?
(a) Torrent.
(b) Derivative.
(c) Flagrancy.
(d) Stagnation.

2. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

3. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) “Generations of traffic.”
(b) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(c) “The endless earthquakes.”
(d) "Tears of crocodiles."

4. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a mathematical determination of the number of something?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Calculation.
(d) Articulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of Holston, the narrator says in Chapter 2, “He pretended not to care, to be disinterested in” what?

3. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?

4. What time period is noted in the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?

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