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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) “The ocean.”
(b) “His childhood.”
(c) “Poppy flowers.”
(d) “The smoke from a train.”

2. How many years is Holston said to have “spent silently waiting for what would never come” in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

3. What word from Chapter 2 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Savage.
(d) Intrinsic.

4. How long ago does the mayor say the uprising was in Chapter 2?
(a) Two decades ago.
(b) A half of a century ago.
(c) Six decades ago.
(d) A century and a half ago.

5. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Trills.
(b) Screams.
(c) Rasps.
(d) Booms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the underground structure called where the characters of Wool live?

2. What is said to cling to the boots that Holston is wearing in Chapter 1?

3. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?

4. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to describe her supposition intended to the explain past events?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What setting is described at the top of the stairs in Chapter 1?

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

4. What superstitions from his past does Holston recall in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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