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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Redness of the Map.

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) Metaphysical.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Esoteric.
(d) Erroneous.

2. One of the companies in Texas that sells apocalyptic dwellings is called Trident what?
(a) Market.
(b) Views.
(c) Lakes.
(d) Valley.

3. How many other tour groups did O'Connell's group encounter during the visit to the Zone?
(a) 0.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 1 or 2.
(d) 3 or 4.

4. O'Connell associates the sound of which element with the time around which his daughter was born?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Fire.
(c) Air.
(d) Water.

5. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?
(a) To raise livestock.
(b) To provide rental income.
(c) To build biodomes.
(d) To survive the apocalypse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Igor told O'Connell that he and his wife had how many children together?

2. The Lorax and his story has led to many bedtime conversations between O'Connell and his son about which topic?

3. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?

4. What is the title of the "movement of artists and writers and activists united by the conviction that climate catastrophe was not just real and imminent but also in fact inevitable" (141)?

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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