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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Pristine floral curtains.”
(b) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(c) “Heavy, dark draperies.”
(d) “Black, sooty curtains.”

2. How many flights of stairs has Holston just bolted up in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?
(a) Uprising.
(b) Former dictator.
(c) Nuclear disaster.
(d) Genocide.

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

5. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?
(a) Mannerism.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Ablation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?

3. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?

4. When the narrator says that Holston feels pressure to find someone to send to cleaning in Chapter 3, it is stated, “It was growing, like steam building up in the silo, ready to launch something out.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

5. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who betrays a friend, country, or principle?

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