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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 used to describe Holston’s condition in Chapter 7 refers to the state of being killed by being deprived of air?
(a) Asphyxiation.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Genocide.

2. What word, which means pitifully sad and abandoned, is used to describe the city overlooking Holston as he dies in Chapter 7?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Forlorn.

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

4. Allison tells Holston that once she is released for the cleaning the next day, she will return for what, in Chapter 5?
(a) For the spaceship.
(b) For their children.
(c) For the revolution.
(d) For Holston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?

2. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?

3. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?

4. What color does the world around Holston turn several times as he collapses on the hillside in Chapter 7?

5. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?

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