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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 describes which object as the usually-reliable shortcut to protect oneself and one's family from thinking disturbing thoughts?
(a) The comics.
(b) The shower.
(c) The off button.
(d) The power cord.

2. O'Connell states that the most striking photographs he took during his visit to the Zone featured what type of store?
(a) Pet.
(b) Electronics.
(c) Book.
(d) Shoe.

3. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Breath.
(d) Living.

4. O'Connell states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Genocide.
(c) A pandemic.
(d) The apocalypse.

5. Caroline told O'Connell that in the end, the element that allows survival "is and always will be" (159) what?
(a) Health.
(b) Community.
(c) Tenacity.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what name was the now-defunct amusement park in the Zone known?

3. Dr. Pinker has stated that the fates of successive generations of humankind have gotten what over time?

4. When O'Connell and Dylan took a trip to the Zone, how many permanent residents lived in the Zone?

5. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?

(see the answer key)

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