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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell states that the only freedom one has in an airport is the freedom to take which action?
(a) Use the restroom.
(b) Eat food.
(c) Wait.
(d) Make purchases.

2. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?
(a) Warping it.
(b) Minimizing it.
(c) Hastening it.
(d) Ignoring it.

3. In what month of the year was the amusement park scheduled to open, according to O'Connell?
(a) May.
(b) November.
(c) January.
(d) August.

4. Lister's goal for purchasing Alladale included reintroducing all but which of the following types of animals to the area?
(a) Lynx.
(b) Bears.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Wolves.

5. Near the end of Chapter 7: "The Final Resting Place," O'Connell states that "meditation upon" what topic "became a mainstay of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and literature" (213)?
(a) Impermanence.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Silence.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6: "Under the Hide," O'Connell discusses at length a character called the Lorax, who states that he "speak[s] for the" (132) what?

2. What is the first name of Vicino, the man O'Connell calls a real estate magnate for the end of days?

3. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?

4. What kind of "revelation" (162) does O'Connell call the epiphany he had in the airport?

5. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?

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