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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. What is the last name of the woman named Caroline with whom O'Connell makes friends at the retreat?
(a) Cowart.
(b) Stewart.
(c) Miller.
(d) Ross.

2. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?
(a) A journal entry.
(b) A painting.
(c) A cassette tape.
(d) A photograph.

3. The picture book discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" features which word to stand in for any material object?
(a) Rooneed.
(b) Schneed.
(c) Thneed.
(d) Parentis.

4. 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)?
(a) A set of scales.
(b) A graph.
(c) An axis.
(d) A chart.

5. 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 historic landmark.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A toxic waste site.
(d) A nature reserve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people attended the retreat at Alladale in total?

2. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?

3. What kind of "revelation" (162) does O'Connell call the epiphany he had in the airport?

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

5. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?

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