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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 is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
(a) “The birds.”
(b) “The cattle.”
(c) “The clouds.”
(d) “The buffalo.”

2. How many years has it been since someone’s been sent to cleaning in Chapter 3?
(a) 4.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?
(a) “A broomstick.”
(b) “A dagger.”
(c) “A needle.”
(d) “A sword.”

4. What does Allison say to Holston “is always good” in Chapter 3?
(a) “Challenging authority.”
(b) “Knowing the truth.”
(c) “Loving one another.”
(d) “Respect for authority.”

5. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Savage.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Ablative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described in the center of each step as the items that “once gave the treads their grip” in Chapter 1?

2. Whom does the mayor say will be at the desk all night and for Holston to contact him if he changes his mind about the meal in Chapter 2?

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

4. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?

5. What idiom is used in Chapter 3 to refer to a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prediction itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Allison initially point out to Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What is one example the use of simile in Chapter 1? What purpose does this example serve?

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

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

5. How is the act of “cleaning” defined in the novel?

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

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

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

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

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

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