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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?
(a) North Korea.
(b) Russia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Iran.

2. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?
(a) To build biodomes.
(b) To survive the apocalypse.
(c) To provide rental income.
(d) To raise livestock.

3. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?
(a) Bewilderment.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Despair.
(d) Melancholy.

4. Lister's goal for purchasing Alladale included reintroducing all but which of the following types of animals to the area?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Lynx.
(d) Bears.

5. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?
(a) Utah.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

4. Dylan states that the amusement park in the Zone "is a hugely iconic place in terms of" (194) what?

5. In what part of the world is the location called Alladale, according to O'Connell?

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