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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 not important or significant?
(a) Inconsequential.
(b) Savage.
(c) Ablative.
(d) Incongruous.
2. What does Holston say Marnes’s title is in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Deputy.
(b) Police Chief.
(c) Sheriff.
(d) Mayor.
3. What does Holston carry with him everywhere, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) A lottery ticket.
(b) A newspaper clipping.
(c) A stapler.
(d) A handgun.
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?
(a) Deputy Nelson.
(b) Deputy Marnes.
(c) Mayor Clarke.
(d) Chief Conner.
5. The days of Holston’s childhood are described in Chapter 1 as being over how many years distant?
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 50.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a road or path forming a route between two places?
2. Holston says to his wife in Chapter 3, “You’re saying that someone wiped out our history to stop us from” what?
3. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the surgical removal of body tissue?
4. In the conclusion of Chapter 3, the narrator states that Holston’s “wife was poking some great, overly full balloon with” what?
5. The narrator describes each step in Chapter 1 as being “rounded down like a pouting lip.” What literary technique is used in this example?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the protagonist of the novel live? How is the arrangement of this setting described in Chapter 1?
2. What “traitorous” notion does Allison present as a reason for the servers being wiped in Chapter 3?
3. What exchange takes place between Holston and Deputy Marnes in Chapter 1?
4. What theory does Holston develop for the reason the view is different in the holding room in Chapter 2?
5. What does Allison’s work involve, as revealed in Chapter 3?
6. How is Mayor Jahns’s demeanor described when she meets with Holston in Chapter 2?
7. What does Allison initially point out to Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3?
8. What does Holston notice about the view from the holding room in the beginning of Chapter 2?
9. What is one example the use of simile in Chapter 1? What purpose does this example serve?
10. How does the setting of the novel transition in Chapter 3?
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