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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. 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) “Think things through.”
(b) “Scream.”
(c) “Weep.”
(d) “Beat the walls.”

2. Holston is described as having NOT done what the entire time he watched Allison die in Chapter 4?
(a) Staying still.
(b) Crying.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Moving.

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to a plant or substance that is capable of causing death or illness if taking into the body?
(a) Poisonous.
(b) Calsonic.
(c) Incendiary.
(d) Peripheral.

4. How are the curtains described in Chapter 6 that cover the interior of the airlock?
(a) “Sacrificial plastic curtains.”
(b) “Heavy, dark draperies.”
(c) “Black, sooty curtains.”
(d) “Pristine floral curtains.”

5. One of the staff employees tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 5 that Allison was detained because she made a rush for what room?
(a) The library.
(b) The airlock.
(c) The nursery.
(d) The holding cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Allison says to Holston in Chapter 5, “There is no uprising, not really, there’s just” what?

2. As Holston performs the cleaning of the silo cameras in Chapter 6, the narrator notes that “it wasn’t the feeling of betrayal that guided the wool in his hand in small circular motions. It was” what?

3. What is Nelson dressing Holston in, in the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting in the opening of Chapter 4? What state is Holston in at the beginning of the chapter?

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

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

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

5. What does Holston do after performing the cleaning duty in Chapter 6?

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

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

8. How are Holston’s memories of the second anniversary of Allison’s departure described in Chapter 6?

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

10. What “forbidden words” does Allison say in Chapter 5? How does Holston respond?

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