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

2. What is Holston described as wearing underneath the outfit Nelson dresses him in, in Chapter 4?
(a) A flannel undersuit.
(b) A white cotton undersuit.
(c) A black carbon undersuit.
(d) A red plaid plastic undersuit.

3. 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) “Fear.”
(b) “Responsibility.”
(c) “Love.”
(d) “Pity.”

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

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

6. 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 three months.
(b) For the first year.
(c) For the first week.
(d) For the first month.

7. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?
(a) A well in rural New England.
(b) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.
(c) A spiral staircase leading up.
(d) A concrete ramp leading up.

8. What is said to cause the metal groan that Holston hears as he prepares to exit for cleaning in Chapter 6?
(a) Pistons in the walls.
(b) The cyborg children.
(c) The computer system crashing.
(d) Robots outside the room.

9. What does Holston recall Allison clutching as she collapsed after her cleaning in Chapter 4?
(a) Her boots.
(b) Her helmet.
(c) Her gloves.
(d) Her oxygen tank.

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) Calsonic.
(b) Peripheral.
(c) Poisonous.
(d) Incendiary.

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

12. 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 3rd floor.
(d) The 5th floor.

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

14. 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) 4 or 5 feet tall.
(b) 2 or 3 feet tall.
(c) 8 or 9 feet tall.
(d) 15 or 16 feet tall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?

2. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?

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