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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. In Chapter 1, the narrator describes the “tight confines” of the stairway as “threading through the buried silo like a straw in a glass.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
(a) Partition.
(b) Vista.
(c) Assemblage.
(d) Incumbent.

3. The narrator says of Holston in Chapter 2, “He continued to see inevitable events from the past as” what?
(a) “Avoidable.”
(b) “Important.”
(c) “Meaningful.”
(d) “Accountable.”

4. Allison says in Chapter 3 that there was a revolt just about how often?
(a) Every 4 years.
(b) Every 20 years.
(c) Every 15 years.
(d) Every 10 years.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
(a) Ablation.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Precision.
(d) Articulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are described in Chapter 2 as “the only books to survive the uprising”?

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

3. Whom does Holston see picking up scattered chalk and crayons from the stained tiles at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What emotions does Holston feel as he discusses Allison’s theories in Chapter 3?

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

6. What thoughts does Holston have regarding the pixels in Chapter 2?

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

8. How is Holston said to relate to his memories of childhood in Chapter 1?

9. What is the principle setting of Wool? In what time period does the story take place?

10. How does the setting of the novel transition in Chapter 3?

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