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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Erroneous.
(d) Esoteric.

2. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?
(a) Despair.
(b) Bewilderment.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Melancholy.

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

4. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Regression.
(b) Rule.
(c) Ratio.
(d) Radius.

5. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?
(a) Study.
(b) Medical care.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Travel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective does O'Connell use to describe the effect of the online discourse on reality?

3. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?

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

5. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?

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