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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. Caroline once wondered aloud if which creatures would make beautiful fossils?
(a) Owls.
(b) Humans.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Ligers.

2. 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) Silence.
(c) Death.
(d) Isolation.

3. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Diving.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Golf.

4. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?
(a) Niagara Falls.
(b) The Bermuda Triangle.
(c) The Black Hills.
(d) The Mojave Desert.

5. In the first weeks of O'Connell's daughter's life, he describes a strange what?
(a) Humidity.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Aura.
(d) Heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?

2. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

3. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

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)?

5. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

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