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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Under the Hide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?
(a) Individual identity.
(b) Time.
(c) Country.
(d) Money.

2. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?
(a) Fostering a child.
(b) Finishing his degree.
(c) Buying a home.
(d) Having a child.

3. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Telenovellas.
(c) News.
(d) Cartoons.

4. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) Director.
(b) Founder.
(c) CEO.
(d) Investor.

5. The movement of artists discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" believe that what element has returned to humankind and has ruined our world?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Hubris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of the retreat described in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" each participant spends how many consecutive hours alone in the forest?

2. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

3. What is NOT designated as one of the representative circles discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?

4. O'Connell discusses going to what type of location called Alladale?

5. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?

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