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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Redness of the Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell classifies the Zone's most recognizable landmark as a "symbol of a decayed" (193) what?
(a) Future.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Past.
(d) Utopia.

2. What verb does O'Connell use to describe the way in which Caroline's comment about fossils affects O'Connell, even today?
(a) Haunts.
(b) Resonates.
(c) Lurks.
(d) Burns.

3. What is the title of the "movement of artists and writers and activists united by the conviction that climate catastrophe was not just real and imminent but also in fact inevitable" (141)?
(a) The Dark River Project.
(b) The Dark Forest Project.
(c) The Dark Bay Project.
(d) The Dark Mountain Project.

4. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?
(a) To breathe easily.
(b) To live.
(c) To laugh.
(d) To smile.

5. By what name was the now-defunct amusement park in the Zone known?
(a) Nitschel.
(b) Larch.
(c) Pripyat.
(d) Playa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward the end of the retreat described in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" each participant spends how many consecutive hours alone in the forest?

2. How many people attended the retreat at Alladale in total?

3. What is the last name of the woman named Caroline with whom O'Connell makes friends at the retreat?

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)?

5. Caroline described a wooden box in which she kept how many seeds from a particular tree?

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