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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

3. 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?
(a) Box-shaped.
(b) Hexagon-shaped.
(c) Pie-shaped.
(d) Diamond-shaped.

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

5. How many years does Holston say it’s been since he served his wife her last meal in the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

6. 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?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

7. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Important.”
(b) “Accountable.”
(c) “Avoidable.”
(d) “Meaningful.”

8. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?
(a) At his mistress’s house.
(b) On his dresser.
(c) At his mother’s house.
(d) In the holding cell.

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

10. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?
(a) “A needle.”
(b) “A sword.”
(c) “A dagger.”
(d) “A broomstick.”

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

12. What were the children doing “while Holston climbed to his death” in Chapter 1?
(a) “The children were weeping.”
(b) “The children were shooting.”
(c) “The children were screaming.”
(d) “The children were playing.”

13. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Simile.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idiom is used in Chapter 3 to refer to a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prediction itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior?

3. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?

4. What is the name of the deputy that greets Holston in his office in Chapter 1?

5. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?

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