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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being no longer needed or useful?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Redundancy.
(c) Periodical.
(d) Juggernaut.

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

3. What is the mayor wearing when she appears at the holding cell in Chapter 2?
(a) A hazard suit.
(b) Coveralls.
(c) A pinstriped suit.
(d) A blue dress.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?
(a) Coalesced.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Intrinsic.
(d) Formative.

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

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

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

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

9. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

11. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Predicament.

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

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

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

15. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?
(a) “Progressing forward.”
(b) “Finding out the truth of the past.”
(c) “Discovering the genocide.”
(d) “Repeating it.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” 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. Allison says in Chapter 3 that there was a revolt just about how often?

4. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?

5. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?

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