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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does the mayor say will be at the desk all night and for Holston to contact him if he changes his mind about the meal in Chapter 2?
(a) Chief Conner.
(b) Mayor Clarke.
(c) Deputy Marnes.
(d) Deputy Nelson.

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

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

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

6. 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 write a will.”
(c) “You get some sleep.”
(d) “You prepare yourself.”

7. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?
(a) Muddy.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Spiral.
(d) Marble.

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

9. What does “IT” stand for in Chapter 3?
(a) Information Technology.
(b) Internet Theory.
(c) Illiterate Technology.
(d) Indication Technician.

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) Articulation.
(c) Generation.
(d) Denouement.

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

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

13. 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.

14. In describing the stairway in Chapter 1, the narrator says, “Each step was slightly bowed from” what?
(a) “Generations of traffic.”
(b) “The constant wearing by soldiers.”
(c) “The endless earthquakes.”
(d) "Tears of crocodiles."

15. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Invented computer programs.
(b) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.
(c) Created the child lottery.
(d) Wiped the servers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?

2. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?

3. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?

4. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?

5. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?

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