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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 kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) An ostrich.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A penguin.
(d) A polar bear.

2. What new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Tenuousness.
(b) Slowness.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Rapidity.

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

4. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Diving.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Golf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?

2. How old was O'Connell's son at the time of the events described in Chapter 1: Tribulations?

3. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?

4. What type of landmark is Mount Eden, the location to which Anthony took O'Connell immediately upon picking him up at the airport?

5. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

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