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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 in Chapter 5 means to engage in plots and intrigues or to scheme?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Persecute.
(d) Machinate.

2. As Holston is about to exit the airlock for his cleaning, the narrator notes that the airlock area will be scrubbed clean and ready for the next cleaning by what time in Chapter 6?
(a) Nightfall.
(b) The next week.
(c) The next morning.
(d) Noon.

3. What word used in Chapter 5 refers to the act of making a forcefully reproachful protest?
(a) Articulation.
(b) Juggernaut.
(c) Remonstration.
(d) Ablation.

4. Nelson is described in Chapter 4 as holding what position?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Governor.
(c) The assistant deputy.
(d) Head of the cleaning lab.

5. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?
(a) The holding cell.
(b) The library.
(c) The school bus.
(d) The cafeteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Holston go on patrol at night with on the second anniversary of Allison’s departure?

2. Nelson tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4 that the outfit he’s being dressed in has what attributes that will give Holston “more time out there than anyone has had before”?

3. As Holston performs the cleaning in Chapter 6, it dawns on him, “His wife had been right.” In what way was she right?

4. As Holston considers the reasoning behind the difference in how the world actually looks and how it is portrayed inside the silo in Chapter 6, he wonders, “Could someone have decided that the truth was worse than” what?

5. Who handles the procedural work for Allison while Holston paces outside the bars of the holding cell in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nelson’s position in the story? What does he tell Holston in the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. How is Holston’s behavior outside of the holding cell described in Chapter 5?

3. Where did Holston watch Allison’s cleaning from? What does the narrator say Allison did when she completed the cleaning in Chapter 4?

4. What changes take place in the airlock as the time nears for Holston’s departure in Chapter 6?

5. What is the setting and time frame of Chapter 5? What is Holston doing in the opening of the chapter?

6. What does Allison initially say to Holston when she begins to talk in the holding cell in Chapter 5?

7. Why is Holston’s entering the holding cell a dangerous action in Chapter 5? Why does he commit this action?

8. What instructions does Nelson give to Holston in Chapter 4?

9. Why does Holston make the decision to keep on his helmet as he departs in Chapter 6?

10. Why does Allison tell Holston she will return to the silo in Chapter 5?

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