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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 2, “There were larger things to consider than the act of” what?
(a) “Loving.”
(b) “Cleaning.”
(c) "Dying."
(d) “Caring.”

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

3. 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.

4. What are described in Chapter 1 as “the widest rooms of the entire silo complex”?
(a) The nursery and the gardens.
(b) The dormitories and the atrium.
(c) The cellar and the attic.
(d) The cafeteria and lounge.

5. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

6. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Simile.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Assonance.

7. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?
(a) Wood shavings.
(b) Metal shavings.
(c) Melted plastic.
(d) Paint.

8. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Donna.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Michelle.

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

10. Allison says to Holston when he suggests that maybe she shouldn’t be doing this work, “If I don’t piece it together now, somebody else will at some point. You can’t put” what “back in the bottle”?
(a) “The genie.”
(b) “The bee.”
(c) “Pandora.”
(d) “The poison.”

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

12. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Alliteration.

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

14. What word in Chapter 3 refers to a serious disagreement or argument?
(a) Precision.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Ablation.

15. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 5 years earlier.
(c) 2 years earlier.
(d) 4 years earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?

2. What rooms are described in Chapter 1 as being filled with “tangles of pipes, like a vast universe”?

3. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. How many years ago was Jack Brent put to cleaning, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

5. 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”?

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