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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. What is the first name of Vicino, the man O'Connell calls a real estate magnate for the end of days?
(a) Robert.
(b) Taylor.
(c) Steven.
(d) Michael.

2. At the time of O'Connell's visit to the Zone, how many years before had the Chernobyl disaster occurred?
(a) 22.
(b) 51.
(c) 42.
(d) 31.

3. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?
(a) Magistrates.
(b) Colonizers.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Policemen.

4. O'Connell admits to the reader that he and his wife have so far succeeded in convincing their son that what aspect of life is obsolete?
(a) Murder.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Cancer.
(d) War.

5. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?
(a) Civilization itself.
(b) The family.
(c) The economy.
(d) The nation-state.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?

4. Which member of O'Connell's family did he used to take to the churchyard to play?

5. Schopenhauer is described as having seen "a particular reflection of the world's true" (239) what?

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