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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 30.
(b) 60.
(c) 50.
(d) 40.

2. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?
(a) Children’s books.
(b) Religious books.
(c) Science textbooks.
(d) History books.

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Avoidable.”
(b) “Accountable.”
(c) “Important.”
(d) “Meaningful.”

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

5. In Chapter 5, the narrator says, “The enormous pent-up pressure of the place was now hissing through the seams in whispers.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Personification.
(b) Religious allusion.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Plagiarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

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

3. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?

4. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?

5. What person who had been sent to cleaning is described in Chapter 4 as having “been belligerent and hostile right up to the end”?

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