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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Allison say she wants to do when Holston tries talking to her as she’s detained on the floor in Chapter 5?
(a) Go out.
(b) Call her mother.
(c) Have a child.
(d) Return home.

2. What does Allison whisper from the darkened corner of her cell after hours of complete silence in Chapter 5?
(a) “It’s not real.”
(b) “I forgot.”
(c) “I love you.”
(d) “I need out.”

3. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?
(a) “Packed.”
(b) “Empty.”
(c) “Emotional.”
(d) “Rancorous.”

4. What color paint is described on the airlock door in Chapter 5?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

5. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?
(a) “Convictions.”
(b) “Retribution.”
(c) “Vengeance.”
(d) “Fears.”

6. What color overwhelms the surroundings of the world outside the silo when Holston exits for his cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

7. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 4 years earlier.
(b) The present time.
(c) 3 years earlier.
(d) 6 years earlier.

8. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Pristine floral curtains.”
(b) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(c) “Heavy, dark draperies.”
(d) “Black, sooty curtains.”

9. What word from Chapter 4 refers to the state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Corrupted.
(c) Dilapidated.
(d) Ablative.

10. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?
(a) Incendiary.
(b) Calsonic.
(c) Peripheral.
(d) Poisonous.

11. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Deputy Marnes.
(b) No one.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Clarke.

12. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?
(a) The airlock.
(b) The holding cell.
(c) The library.
(d) The nursery.

13. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5 that “every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re” what?
(a) “In the bad place right here.”
(b) “The bad people.”
(c) “Being held prisoner.”
(d) “Weaker than we seem.”

14. The word “gyre” used in Chapter 5 refers to what kind of shape?
(a) A hexagon.
(b) A sphere.
(c) A cube.
(d) A spiral.

15. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?
(a) Klaxon.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Polymer.
(d) Precision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time period is noted in the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?

3. On what floor of the silo is the dirt farm where Holston’s parents were sent after their deaths?

4. What does Holston grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?

5. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?

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