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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) The next week.
(b) The next morning.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) Noon.

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

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

6. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 6 years earlier.
(c) 4 years earlier.
(d) The present time.

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

8. 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.”

9. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?
(a) “Packed.”
(b) “Rancorous.”
(c) “Emotional.”
(d) “Empty.”

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

11. 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.

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

13. How many flights of stairs has Holston just bolted up in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?

2. Allison says to Holston in Chapter 5, “There is no uprising, not really, there’s just” what?

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

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

5. The word “gyre” used in Chapter 5 refers to what kind of shape?

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