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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. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?
(a) The future.
(b) The battle between good and evil.
(c) Financial solvency.
(d) World peace.

2. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?
(a) Jungletown.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Vivos.
(d) Mina.

3. O'Connell states that the only freedom one has in an airport is the freedom to take which action?
(a) Use the restroom.
(b) Make purchases.
(c) Eat food.
(d) Wait.

4. O'Connell describes arriving at the conclusion that which island was a metaphor for all of earth in the modern age?
(a) Fire Island.
(b) San Juan Island.
(c) Easter Island.
(d) Three-Mile Island.

5. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 11 or 12.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 13 or 14.
(d) 5 or 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?

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

3. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?

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)?

5. The graph discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" depicts measurements of what type of consumption?

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