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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. Holston is described in Chapter 6 as “alone in the airlock, wearing a cleaning suit, full of doubts and” what?
(a) “Fears.”
(b) “Vengeance.”
(c) “Convictions.”
(d) “Retribution.”

2. When Allison didn’t return after her cleaning, Holston began to consider doing what, according to the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Going out after her.
(b) Remarrying.
(c) Calling her father.
(d) Calling his mother.

3. Upon observing his wife’s state in Chapter 5, Holston considers, “There was nothing left for it but to lock her up, even as he wanted nothing else but room enough to” do what?
(a) “Beat the walls.”
(b) “Weep.”
(c) “Scream.”
(d) “Think things through.”

4. When the airlock doors open and Holston steps out of them in Chapter 6, he finds himself located at the bottom of what?
(a) A spiral staircase leading up.
(b) A well in rural New England.
(c) A concrete ramp leading up.
(d) A staircase that leads endlessly downward.

5. 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”?
(a) A chain-mail exterior.
(b) An aragonite helmet.
(c) A second spray-on lining.
(d) Kevlar boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allison whisper from the darkened corner of her cell after hours of complete silence in Chapter 5?

2. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a mathematical determination of the number of something?

3. What color overwhelms the surroundings of the world outside the silo when Holston exits for his cleaning in Chapter 6?

4. What does Holston recall Allison clutching as she collapsed after her cleaning in Chapter 4?

5. Where does Holston arrive in a sprint in the opening of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Allison’s death described in Chapter 4?

3. What conclusions Holston make upon taking in the surroundings of the outer world in Chapter 6?

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

5. Whom does Allison believe to be responsible for keeping secrets in Chapter 5?

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

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

8. What does Holston find in the cafeteria in the beginning of Chapter 5?

9. What does Holston note about the fear he sees in Nelson’s eyes in Chapter 4?

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

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