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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 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?
(a) The enchanted.
(b) The omniscient.
(c) The condemned.
(d) The forgiven.

2. What does Holston recall Allison doing after finishing her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Looking into the camera and waving at him.
(b) Breaking the camera and running.
(c) Taking off her helmet and smiling.
(d) Screaming hysterically and beating the camera.

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

4. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Carbon Monoxide.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Sunshine.

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

6. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?
(a) “The computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(b) “The view from inside was a lie.”
(c) “The view from inside was the truth.”
(d) “The leaders had killed all the children.”

7. 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) Jack Brent.
(b) Mayor Jahns.
(c) Donna Parkins.
(d) Conner.

8. How many cameras are described atop the tower of the silo in Chapter 6?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

9. Holston is described as having NOT done what the entire time he watched Allison die in Chapter 4?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Staying still.
(c) Moving.
(d) Crying.

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

11. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?
(a) A spaceship terminal.
(b) A crumbling city over the horizon.
(c) The windows of the silo.
(d) An empty school bus on the hill.

12. 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 love you.”
(c) “I need out.”
(d) “I forgot.”

13. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?
(a) Cowardice.
(b) Ablation.
(c) Precision.
(d) Articulation.

14. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Perpetuate.
(c) Retrieval.
(d) Articulate.

15. 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) Peripheral.
(c) Calsonic.
(d) Poisonous.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What does Allison say she wants to do when Holston tries talking to her as she’s detained on the floor in Chapter 5?

4. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?

5. Whom does Holston believe is watching him from the cafeteria and/or lounge as he performs the cleaning in Chapter 6?

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