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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What person who had been sent to cleaning is described in Chapter 4 as having “been belligerent and hostile right up to the end”?
(a) Donna Parkins.
(b) Conner.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Jack Brent.

2. What does Holston recall Allison using to clean with during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Wool pads.
(b) A large mop.
(c) A scrub brush.
(d) A bristle broom.

3. When Holston looks back at the silo from the outside in Chapter 6, “All that stood behind him was a small mound of concrete, a tower” no more than how many feet tall?
(a) 15 or 16 feet tall.
(b) 8 or 9 feet tall.
(c) 2 or 3 feet tall.
(d) 4 or 5 feet tall.

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

5. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?
(a) Futile.
(b) Methodical.
(c) Intrinsic.
(d) Precise.

6. What color helmet does Holston recall Allison wearing during her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) White.
(b) Silver.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

7. Who handles the procedural work for Allison while Holston paces outside the bars of the holding cell in Chapter 5?
(a) Clarke and Donna Parkins.
(b) Percy and Deputy Marnes.
(c) Deputy Marnes and Mayor Jahns.
(d) Nelson and Conner.

8. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) A blue hazard suit.
(b) A pinstriped suit.
(c) A white lab coat.
(d) A white hazard suit.

9. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a mathematical determination of the number of something?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Calculation.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Ablation.

10. On what floor of the silo is the dirt farm where Holston’s parents were sent after their deaths?
(a) The 15th floor.
(b) The 8th floor.
(c) The 5th floor.
(d) The 3rd floor.

11. Holston wonders as he is being dressed by Nelson in Chapter 4 why the others have always complied when in this position. “Holston thought maybe that people went along because” of what reason?
(a) “They couldn’t believe it was happening.”
(b) “They believed they would find a way to escape.”
(c) “They believed that they deserved it.”
(d) “They wanted revenge.”

12. 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.

13. For how long after Allison’s cleaning does the narrator say Holston “had waited, buying into her insanity, hoping she’d come back” in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) For the first year.
(b) For the first month.
(c) For the first week.
(d) For the first three months.

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

15. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?
(a) The school bus.
(b) The cafeteria.
(c) The holding cell.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time period is Chapter 4 said to take place in?

2. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5, “There could be people outside… They could be” doing what?

3. As Holston is about to exit the airlock for his cleaning, the narrator notes that the airlock area will be scrubbed clean and ready for the next cleaning by what time in Chapter 6?

4. What is Holston described as wearing underneath the outfit Nelson dresses him in, in Chapter 4?

5. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?

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