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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 means cruel and vicious?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Savage.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Ablative.
2. Who is described in Chapter 1 as sitting “behind a table arranged with cups of juice and bowls of cornflour cookies”?
(a) Paul.
(b) Clarke.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Peter.
3. The voices that Holston hears as he ascends the staircase in Chapter 1 are described as what?
(a) Screams.
(b) Trills.
(c) Rasps.
(d) Booms.
4. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
(a) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.
5. What word from Chapter 1 means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings of other aspects of something?
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Methodical.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
2. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
3. What word does Allison use in Chapter 3 to refer to all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively?
4. 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?
5. What is described as “the only moving feature on the landscape” in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the protagonist doing when he is first introduced in Chapter 1?
2. What emotions does Holston feel as he discusses Allison’s theories in Chapter 3?
3. What is one example the use of simile in Chapter 1? What purpose does this example serve?
4. What “traitorous” notion does Allison present as a reason for the servers being wiped in Chapter 3?
5. What does Allison initially point out to Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3?
6. How does the setting of the novel transition in Chapter 3?
7. What does Mayor Jahns say about the holding cell when she first arrives in Chapter 2?
8. What superstitions from his past does Holston recall in Chapter 1?
9. What exchange takes place between Holston and Deputy Marnes in Chapter 1?
10. What theory does Holston reach about the wiped servers in Chapter 3?
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