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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. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?
(a) A book.
(b) A bill.
(c) A pamphlet.
(d) A manifesto.

2. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?
(a) A beard.
(b) A pair of headphones.
(c) An earring.
(d) Long hair.

3. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?
(a) Tribulations.
(b) Futures.
(c) Survival.
(d) Fantasies.

4. What is the purpose of the Zone discussed in Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future?
(a) Posterity.
(b) Sustainability.
(c) Exclusion.
(d) Research.

5. O'Connell states that the Chernobyl site is now effectively the largest what in all of Europe?
(a) Isthmus.
(b) Landfill.
(c) Nature preserve.
(d) Collection of toxic waste.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?

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

4. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?

5. What kind of artist was the man who served as O'Connell's son's first example of an auteur?

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