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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. Who is the staff employee that corrals Allison’s feet to prevent her from kicking in Chapter 5?
(a) Percy.
(b) Mayor Jahns.
(c) Jack Brent.
(d) Nelson.

2. What does Holston grab above him in order to pull himself to a standing position as Nelson dresses him in Chapter 4?
(a) “A trapeze-like bar.”
(b) “An anvil.”
(c) “A hanging rack.”
(d) “A coat-rack.”

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

4. Allison tells Holston that once she is released for the cleaning the next day, she will return for what, in Chapter 5?
(a) For Holston.
(b) For their children.
(c) For the revolution.
(d) For the spaceship.

5. Holston’s brain is described as being numb from lack of what in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Sunshine.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Carbon Monoxide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 6 means to make something continue indefinitely, such as an undesirable situation?

2. What word from Chapter 6 means to destroy something (especially waste material) by burning?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to someone who has been found guilty of a criminal act or wrong?

4. In Chapter 5, the narrator says, “The enormous pent-up pressure of the place was now hissing through the seams in whispers.” What literary technique is used in this sentence?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 4 that “the silo with hits great screens showing the outside world was usually” in what state during cleanings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What response does Holston have when Nelson asks him at the end of Chapter 4, “You okay? Anything too tight?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Holston recall of Allison’s preparations to depart for her cleaning in Chapter 4?

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