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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?
(a) 2 dimes.
(b) 2 potatoes.
(c) 2 flowers.
(d) 2 pennies.

2. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?
(a) Small diamonds.
(b) Small spigots.
(c) Small trapezoids.
(d) Small hearts.

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 forget about her.”
(b) “You get some sleep.”
(c) “You prepare yourself.”
(d) “You write a will.”

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?
(a) Formative.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Coalesced.
(d) Intrinsic.

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

6. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Thoroughfare.

7. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “The smoke from a train.”
(b) “Poppy flowers.”
(c) “His childhood.”
(d) “The ocean.”

8. The narrator says in the beginning of Chapter 2 that the “view from the holding cell wasn’t as” what as “it had been in the cafeteria”?
(a) “Bright.”
(b) “Clear.”
(c) “Pleasant.”
(d) “Blurry.”

9. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?
(a) “Finding out the truth of the past.”
(b) “Repeating it.”
(c) “Discovering the genocide.”
(d) “Progressing forward.”

10. 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) Juggernaut.
(b) Generation.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Articulation.

11. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
(a) Mayor Percy.
(b) Mayor Parkins.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Mayor Nelson.

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

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

14. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A handgun.
(b) A stapler.
(c) A lottery ticket.
(d) A newspaper clipping.

15. Holston’s office is described in Chapter 1 as being between the cafeteria and what?
(a) The nursery.
(b) The zoo.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The schoolroom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?

3. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

4. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?

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

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