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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. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?
(a) Study.
(b) Travel.
(c) Introspection.
(d) Medical care.

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 painting.
(b) A journal entry.
(c) A cassette tape.
(d) A photograph.

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

4. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?
(a) Esoteric.
(b) Erroneous.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Ecstatic.

5. The theory discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" revolves around "three circles of" (179) what?
(a) Health.
(b) Care.
(c) Money.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gorbachev believed that the Chernobyl disaster would create how many years of aftereffects?

2. 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?

3. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?

4. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?

5. O'Connell spent a week at Alladale in the spring of which year?

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