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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?
(a) The forgiven.
(b) The condemned.
(c) The omniscient.
(d) The enchanted.

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

3. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) Melted plastic.
(b) Paint.
(c) Wood shavings.
(d) Metal shavings.

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

5. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?

2. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?

3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?

4. Holston wonders as he is being dressed by Nelson in Chapter 4 why the others have always complied when in this position. “Holston thought maybe that people went along because” of what reason?

5. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?

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