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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) Turkey.
(b) Russia.
(c) North Korea.
(d) Iran.

2. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?
(a) Useless.
(b) Collapse.
(c) Finite.
(d) Stop.

3. From what type of tree were the seeds discussed by Caroline in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) Birch.
(b) Maple.
(c) Aspen.
(d) Yew.

4. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Diving.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Golf.
(d) Hockey.

5. In what type of vehicle were the participants in the tour of the Zone picked up by Igor?
(a) A minibus.
(b) A pickup truck.
(c) A school bus.
(d) A flatbed truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

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

3. Caroline lives on a house boat along which river, 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 describes arriving at the conclusion that which island was a metaphor for all of earth in the modern age?

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