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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Under the Hide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which specific airport is featured in O'Connell's discussion of airports in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) JFK.
(b) Stapleton.
(c) Heathrow.
(d) O'Hare.

2. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Mars.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Jupiter.

3. What type of landmark is Mount Eden, the location to which Anthony took O'Connell immediately upon picking him up at the airport?
(a) A toxic waste site.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A nature reserve.
(d) A historic landmark.

4. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) Futures.
(c) Survival.
(d) Tribulations.

5. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?
(a) Jones.
(b) Dawes.
(c) Rawles.
(d) Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?

2. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

3. Lister's goal for purchasing Alladale included reintroducing all but which of the following types of animals to the area?

4. 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?

5. The movement of artists O'Connell discusses believes that what item assuming continual progress of humankind over time "has been fatally undermined in our time" (143)?

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