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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. For how many years had Igor worked as a tour guide in the Zone by the time of O'Connell's arrival?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 24.
(d) 4.

2. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) Boston.
(b) Perth.
(c) New York City.
(d) Auckland.

3. The warning O'Connell discusses in Chapter 8: The Redness of the Map is meant to warn people about an element of what?
(a) Weather.
(b) Medical health.
(c) Bias.
(d) Financial health.

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2011.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2006.

5. What was the name of the luxury apocalyptic compound O'Connell visited?
(a) MPoint.
(b) QPoint.
(c) XPoint.
(d) LPoint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which specific airport is featured in O'Connell's discussion of airports in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?

2. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?

3. What kind of feeling did O'Connell's friend report experiencing while looking at a graph about consumption?

4. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?

5. In the first weeks of O'Connell's daughter's life, he describes a strange what?

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