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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?
(a) Persecute.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Machinate.

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

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Predicament.
(d) Juggernaut.

5. The narrator describes the hissing of a canister as what substance is loaded into the flushing chambers in Chapter 5?
(a) Argon.
(b) Helium.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term, which applies to the setting of Wool, refers to a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?

2. What does Holston lay down beside as he dies in Chapter 7?

3. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?

4. The narrator states in Chapter 1, “That always amazed [Holston]: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down” what?

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

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