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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. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?
(a) Elliptical.
(b) Rectangular.
(c) Circular.
(d) Square.

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) Hockey.
(c) Diving.
(d) Basketball.

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

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

5. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?
(a) Esoteric.
(b) Erroneous.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Metaphysical.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?

2. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?

3. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?

4. What noun does O'Connell use to describe the unrelenting nature of the modern version of the apocalypse?

5. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

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