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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) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

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

3. When Nelson and Holston first make eye contact in Chapter 4, Holston notes that Nelson looks fearful. What does Holston believe Nelson is afraid of?
(a) That he will not do the cleaning.
(b) That he will commit suicide.
(c) That he will call his father.
(d) That he will kill everyone in the silo.

4. Holston is sitting on “the lone steel bench” in what room in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The airlock.
(b) The library.
(c) The cafeteria.
(d) His office.

5. What word in Chapter 6 describes an electric horn or a similar loud warning device?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Klaxon.
(d) Precision.

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

7. Who is the staff employee that corrals Allison’s feet to prevent her from kicking in Chapter 5?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Jack Brent.
(c) Mayor Jahns.
(d) Percy.

8. 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 beheaded.
(b) He could be put in prison.
(c) He could be put in isolation.
(d) He could be sent to cleaning.

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

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

11. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?
(a) The assistant deputy.
(b) Mayor.
(c) Governor.
(d) Head of the cleaning lab.

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

13. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?
(a) A chain-mail exterior.
(b) An aragonite helmet.
(c) Kevlar boots.
(d) A second spray-on lining.

14. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Remarrying.
(b) Calling his mother.
(c) Going out after her.
(d) Calling her father.

15. 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 real.”
(d) “So blue.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?

2. What word from Chapter 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?

3. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?

4. After Allison finished her cleaning, Holston recalls her walking toward what before collapsing?

5. Allison tells Holston in Chapter 5, “There could be people outside… They could be” doing what?

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