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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Trills.
(b) Rasps.
(c) Booms.
(d) Screams.

2. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Peter.
(d) Paul.

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

4. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?
(a) Deputy Marnes.
(b) Deputy Nelson.
(c) Deputy Conner.
(d) Deputy Jahns.

5. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Pixel.
(d) Ablation.

6. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being barred from one’s native country?
(a) Retrieval.
(b) Exile.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Assonance.

7. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
(a) Religion.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Revenge.

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

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

10. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?
(a) Pots and pans.
(b) Work files.
(c) Dresses.
(d) Winter coats.

11. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?
(a) Vibrate.
(b) Coalesce.
(c) Expel.
(d) Juggernaut.

12. Holston thinks to himself in Chapter 2, “Tomorrow will be my” what?
(a) "Revenge."
(b) “Wedding day.”
(c) “Promotion.”
(d) “Salvation.”

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

14. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Precision.

15. What is the name of Holston’s wife who is deceased?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Maria.
(c) Paula.
(d) Allison.

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?

3. What does “IT” stand for in Chapter 3?

4. The divisions of dormitories that Holston passes as he makes his way up the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as being shaped like what?

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

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