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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. What word from Chapter 2 refers to a minute area of illumination on a display screen?
(a) Polymer.
(b) Pixel.
(c) Juggernaut.
(d) Ablation.

2. Whose son bumps into Holston’s knees at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?
(a) Paula’s son.
(b) Allison’s son.
(c) Sharon’s son.
(d) Susan’s son.

3. Chapter 3 is described as taking place how many years earlier?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 4 years earlier.
(c) 2 years earlier.
(d) 5 years earlier.

4. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Peter.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Clarke.
(d) Paul.

5. What word from Chapter 3 refers to the process of obtaining or consulting of material stored in a computer system?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Retrieval.
(c) Accordance.
(d) Ablation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in Chapter 3 refers to the state of being barred from one’s native country?

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

3. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the character of Allison relate to Holston’s objectives in the story?

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

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

4. How is Mayor Jahns’s demeanor described when she meets with Holston in Chapter 2?

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

6. What exchange takes place between Holston and Deputy Marnes in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of the lottery ticket that Holston is said to always carry with him in Chapter 1?

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