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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
(a) “His childhood.”
(b) “The ocean.”
(c) “The smoke from a train.”
(d) “Poppy flowers.”

2. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being barred from one’s native country?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Exile.
(c) Retrieval.
(d) Genocide.

3. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Methodical.
(b) Mechanical.
(c) Intrinsic.
(d) Incongruous.

4. What word from Chapter 1 means to oscillate or move rhythmically and steadily to and fro?
(a) Coalesce.
(b) Expel.
(c) Vibrate.
(d) Juggernaut.

5. What does Allison suggest someone did during the “great uprising—the only one we’ve known about till now” in Chapter 3?
(a) Destroyed the earth with nuclear power.
(b) Wiped the servers.
(c) Invented computer programs.
(d) Created the child lottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who betrays a friend, country, or principle?

2. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?

4. Holston is described in Chapter 1 as being determined to do what?

5. What did Holston and his wife keep under the mattress to bring luck for having twins?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Holston compare the images from the screens to the children’s books that survived the uprising in Chapter 2?

2. What “traitorous” notion does Allison present as a reason for the servers being wiped in Chapter 3?

3. Where does the protagonist of the novel live? How is the arrangement of this setting described in Chapter 1?

4. What is the protagonist doing when he is first introduced in Chapter 1?

5. What is the theory that Allison presents to Holston in Chapter 3?

6. What is an example of the use of literary repetition in Chapter 1? What purpose does this example serve?

7. What does Mayor Jahns say about the holding cell when she first arrives in Chapter 2?

8. What does Holston discover that Mayor Jahns and the others in the silo fear in Chapter 2?

9. What does Allison’s work involve, as revealed in Chapter 3?

10. What theory does Holston reach about the wiped servers in Chapter 3?

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