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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. How is the staircase that Holston is climbing described in Chapter 1?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Muddy.
(c) Marble.
(d) Plastic.
2. What word from Chapter 2 means not important or significant?
(a) Ablative.
(b) Savage.
(c) Incongruous.
(d) Inconsequential.
3. The narrator states in Chapter 3 that Holston’s “wife was a wizard with computers, no doubt, but” what “was not her bag, it was his”?
(a) “Cooking.”
(b) “Sleuthing.”
(c) “Cleaning.”
(d) “Auto repair.”
4. What does “IT” stand for in Chapter 3?
(a) Illiterate Technology.
(b) Indication Technician.
(c) Internet Theory.
(d) Information Technology.
5. What does Allison say she’s already published “on how to retrieve deleted and overwritten files” in Chapter 3?
(a) “A white paper.”
(b) “A blue paper.”
(c) “A green paper.”
(d) “An official dossier.”
Short Answer Questions
1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening?
2. When the mayor exits in the end of Chapter 2, she tells Holston, “And I won’t insult you by suggesting” what?
3. What did Holston and his wife hang over their bed to increase fertility?
4. How many years ago does the narrator say Donna Parkins was put to cleaning in Chapter 2?
5. What is the mayor’s name in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the principle setting of Wool? In what time period does the story take place?
2. What does Allison initially point out to Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3?
3. What exchange takes place between Holston and Deputy Marnes in Chapter 1?
4. How is the act of “cleaning” defined in the novel?
5. How does the character of Allison relate to Holston’s objectives in the story?
6. What emotions does Holston feel as he discusses Allison’s theories in Chapter 3?
7. How does Holston compare the images from the screens to the children’s books that survived the uprising in Chapter 2?
8. What “traitorous” notion does Allison present as a reason for the servers being wiped in Chapter 3?
9. What does Mayor Jahns say about the holding cell when she first arrives in Chapter 2?
10. What is the protagonist doing when he is first introduced in Chapter 1?
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