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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Mannerism.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Articulation.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 sent to cleaning.
(c) He could be beheaded.
(d) He could be put in isolation.

Short Answer 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?

2. Allison tells Holston that once she is released for the cleaning the next day, she will return for what, in Chapter 5?

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

4. On what floor of the silo is the dirt farm where Holston’s parents were sent after their deaths?

5. Who, along with two staff employees, is holding Allison down on the floor when Holston arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?

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