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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) 13.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 19.

2. What does Allison say to Holston “is always good” in Chapter 3?
(a) “Knowing the truth.”
(b) “Challenging authority.”
(c) “Loving one another.”
(d) “Respect for authority.”

3. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?
(a) “You write a will.”
(b) “You prepare yourself.”
(c) “You forget about her.”
(d) “You get some sleep.”

4. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to refer to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Generation.

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

6. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being no longer needed or useful?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Redundancy.
(c) Periodical.
(d) Intrinsic.

7. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?
(a) A century and a half ago.
(b) Two decades ago.
(c) A half of a century ago.
(d) Six decades ago.

8. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?
(a) Purification rooms.
(b) Reading rooms.
(c) Torture rooms.
(d) Airlock chambers.

9. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Ablative.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Savage.

10. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Law.
(c) Theory.
(d) Ablation.

11. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Deputy.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Police Chief.

12. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Retrieval.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Accordance.

13. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Savage.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

14. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The buffalo.”
(b) “The clouds.”
(c) “The cattle.”
(d) “The birds.”

15. What word from Chapter 2 means essential or fundamental?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Primal.
(c) Lateral.
(d) Conducive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?

2. What word in Chapter 3 refers to a serious disagreement or argument?

3. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?

4. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?

5. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?

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