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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the narrator says, “The enormous pent-up pressure of the place was now hissing through the seams in whispers.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Personification.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Religious allusion.
(d) Plagiarism.

2. 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.

3. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?
(a) Deputy Marnes.
(b) Deputy Conner.
(c) Deputy Percy.
(d) Mayor Jahns.

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

5. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?
(a) Incinerate.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Retribution.
(d) Ablation.

6. As Holston performs the cleaning of the silo cameras in Chapter 6, the narrator notes that “it wasn’t the feeling of betrayal that guided the wool in his hand in small circular motions. It was” what?
(a) “Responsibility.”
(b) “Love.”
(c) “Fear.”
(d) “Pity.”

7. 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?
(a) “The lives of the children?”
(b) “The meaning of existence?”
(c) “Another revolt of the people?”
(d) “A loss of power, of control?”

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

9. Allison tells Holston in the holding cell in Chapter 5 that she’s seen the programs they use. “The ones that make pictures on the screens that look” what?
(a) “So real.”
(b) “So blue.”
(c) “So brown.”
(d) “So bleak.”

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

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

12. When Allison indicates to Holston to come sit by her in the holding cell in Chapter 5, he considers briefly before entering that he could receive what punishment for such an action?
(a) He could be put in prison.
(b) He could be beheaded.
(c) He could be sent to cleaning.
(d) He could be put in isolation.

13. The narrator describes the hissing of a canister as what substance is loaded into the flushing chambers in Chapter 5?
(a) Helium.
(b) Argon.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Oxygen.

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

15. What does Holston grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?
(a) “A hanging rack.”
(b) “A trapeze-like bar.”
(c) “An anvil.”
(d) “A coat-rack.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?

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

3. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. How many flights of stairs has Holston just bolted up in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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