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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 4 means incapable of producing any useful result, or pointless?
(a) Precise.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Methodical.
(d) Futile.

2. Allison tells Holston in the holding cell in Chapter 5 that she’s seen the programs they use. “The ones that make pictures on the screens that look” what?
(a) “So bleak.”
(b) “So real.”
(c) “So blue.”
(d) “So brown.”

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

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a habitual gesture of way of speaking or behaving?
(a) Juggernaut.
(b) Articulation.
(c) Ablation.
(d) Mannerism.

5. During what time period does Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 3 years earlier.
(b) 6 years earlier.
(c) 4 years earlier.
(d) The present time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Holston is sitting on “the lone steel bench” in what room in the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. 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?

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

5. Allison tells Holston that once she is released for the cleaning the next day, she will return for what, in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How would you describe Holston’s emotional state in the end of Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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