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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. In what decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?
(a) 50s.
(b) 30s.
(c) 40s.
(d) 20s.

2. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?
(a) The 3rd.
(b) The 13th.
(c) The 5th.
(d) The 9th.

3. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?
(a) Hastening it.
(b) Ignoring it.
(c) Minimizing it.
(d) Warping it.

4. The graph discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" depicts measurements of what type of consumption?
(a) Natural gas consumption.
(b) Resource consumption.
(c) Food consumption.
(d) Water consumption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6: "Under the Hide," O'Connell discusses at length a character called the Lorax, who states that he "speak[s] for the" (132) what?

2. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?

3. The picture book discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" features which word to stand in for any material object?

4. From which country did the monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh originally hail?

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

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