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

2. 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) Metaphysical.
(b) Erroneous.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Esoteric.

3. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 13 or 14.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 11 or 12.

4. What primary emotion did O'Connell feel when he watched the video of the emaciated animal?
(a) Trepidation.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Regret.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other tour groups did O'Connell's group encounter during the visit to the Zone?

2. What kind of "revelation" (162) does O'Connell call the epiphany he had in the airport?

3. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

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

5. O'Connell states that the only freedom one has in an airport is the freedom to take which action?

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