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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Holston’s position of employment in the novel?
2. Allison tells Holston in the beginning of Chapter 3 that there was more than one what?
3. The narrator describes the sky in Chapter 2 as “the same dull gray of” what?
4. What does the narrator say Holston and his wife had “invited into their lives” in Chapter 1?
5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to a systematic or established manner?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the act of “cleaning” defined in the novel?
2. What “traitorous” notion does Allison present as a reason for the servers being wiped in Chapter 3?
3. What emotions does Holston feel as he discusses Allison’s theories in Chapter 3?
4. How does the setting of the novel transition in Chapter 3?
5. How does the character of Allison relate to Holston’s objectives in the story?
6. What is the theory that Allison presents to Holston in Chapter 3?
7. What is the protagonist doing when he is first introduced in Chapter 1?
8. What does Holston discover that Mayor Jahns and the others in the silo fear in Chapter 2?
9. What does Holston notice about the view from the holding room in the beginning of Chapter 2?
10. How does Holston compare the images from the screens to the children’s books that survived the uprising in Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the character of Deputy Marnes in Wool. How old is Deputy Marnes? How well does Marnes know Holston? How would you characterize their relationship?
Essay Topic 2
Describe history of revolts discovered by Allison in her research. How frequently did the earlier revolts occur? When did the revolts stop? What are the implications of the end of the revolts?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of the “self-fulfilling prophesy.” How is this idiom used as a theme in Wool? In what ways is Holston’s future laid out by his choices in Chapter 3? How do Allison’s actions result in a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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