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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, along with two staff employees, is holding Allison down on the floor when Holston arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Mayor Jahns.
(b) Conner.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Donna Parkins.

2. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?
(a) Remonstration.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Juggernaut.

3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a steel reinforcing rod in concrete?
(a) Bunker.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Rebar.
(d) Ablation.

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

5. 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 leaders had killed all the children.”
(b) “The computers were destroyed by aliens.”
(c) “The view from inside was the truth.”
(d) “The view from inside was a lie.”

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

7. Allison says to Holston in Chapter 5, “There is no uprising, not really, there’s just” what?
(a) “A coup.”
(b) “Truth.”
(c) “People who need out.”
(d) “A gradual leak.”

8. 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 bleak.”
(b) “So brown.”
(c) “So blue.”
(d) “So real.”

9. 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 holding cell.
(b) The library.
(c) The airlock.
(d) The nursery.

10. Upon observing his wife’s state in Chapter 5, Holston considers, “There was nothing left for it but to lock her up, even as he wanted nothing else but room enough to” do what?
(a) “Scream.”
(b) “Weep.”
(c) “Beat the walls.”
(d) “Think things through.”

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

12. 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.

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

14. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a strong and fast-moving stream of water or liquid?
(a) Derivative.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) Flagrancy.
(d) Torrent.

15. 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 spiral staircase leading up.
(b) A well in rural New England.
(c) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.
(d) A concrete ramp leading up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5 that “every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re” what?

2. The narrator describes the hissing of a canister as what substance is loaded into the flushing chambers in Chapter 5?

3. Who handles the procedural work for Allison while Holston paces outside the bars of the holding cell in Chapter 5?

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

5. The narrator describes the second anniversary of Allison’s departure as Holston’s year of what, in Chapter 6?

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