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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Utah.
(d) Ohio.

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

3. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Radius.
(b) Ratio.
(c) Regression.
(d) Rule.

4. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) CEO.
(b) Director.
(c) Founder.
(d) Investor.

5. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?
(a) Time.
(b) Money.
(c) Individual identity.
(d) Country.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?

4. Which annual gathering of the Mars Society did O'Connell attend in Los Angeles?

5. 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)?

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