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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. How old was O'Connell's son at the time of the events described in Chapter 1: Tribulations?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 11.

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

3. In Chapter 1: Tribulations, O'Connell asserts that his carbon footprint is as deep and wide as his what?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His despair.
(c) His privilege.
(d) His pride.

4. O'Connell states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) The apocalypse.
(c) A pandemic.
(d) Genocide.

5. The picture book discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" features which word to stand in for any material object?
(a) Parentis.
(b) Rooneed.
(c) Schneed.
(d) Thneed.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell classifies the Zone's most recognizable landmark as a "symbol of a decayed" (193) what?

2. How does O'Connell describe Caroline's position?

3. 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)?

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

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

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