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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Incumbent.
(b) Assemblage.
(c) Vista.
(d) Partition.

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”?
(a) “Cooking.”
(b) “Sleuthing.”
(c) “Cleaning.”
(d) “Auto repair.”

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

4. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?
(a) Geoponic gardens.
(b) Hydroponic gardens.
(c) Aeroponic gardens.
(d) Fluoride gardens.

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

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

7. Holston tells Allison in Chapter 3, “If I’ve learned one thing from my job, it’s that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that” what?
(a) “Just.”
(b) “Powerful.”
(c) “Historical.”
(d) “Original.”

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

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

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

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

12. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who betrays a friend, country, or principle?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Traitor.

13. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?
(a) Judge.
(b) Butcher.
(c) Postman.
(d) Sheriff.

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

15. What does Allison say she’s already published “on how to retrieve deleted and overwritten files” in Chapter 3?
(a) “A white paper.”
(b) “A green paper.”
(c) “A blue paper.”
(d) “An official dossier.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?

2. Where does the narrator say Holston left his wedding ring in Chapter 2?

3. 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?

4. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?

5. 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?

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