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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The clouds.”
(b) “The birds.”
(c) “The cattle.”
(d) “The buffalo.”

2. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?
(a) Nuclear disaster.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Former dictator.
(d) Uprising.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The low rolling hills that Holston looks at from the holding cell are described as a pretty shade of brown like what?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Coffee.
(d) The Mississippi River.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) A bitter pill.
(b) Apple of discord.
(c) Birds of a feather.
(d) Self-fulfilling prophecy.

13. 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) Generation.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Articulation.

14. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 60.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?

2. What is Holston surrounded by in his condo in Chapter 3?

3. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?

4. What kinds of gardens are described as growing in the silo in Chapter 1?

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?

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