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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. What type of sunglasses does O'Connell associate with the doomsday prepping community?
(a) Wraparound.
(b) Aviator.
(c) Polarized.
(d) Mirrored.

2. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2015.

3. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Radius.
(b) Regression.
(c) Ratio.
(d) Rule.

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)?
(a) Erroneous.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Esoteric.
(d) Metaphysical.

5. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?
(a) Elliptical.
(b) Circular.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Square.

Short Answer Questions

1. The movement of artists discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" believe that what element has returned to humankind and has ruined our world?

2. 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)?

3. Near the end of Chapter 7: "The Final Resting Place," O'Connell states that "meditation upon" what topic "became a mainstay of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and literature" (213)?

4. O'Connell and his wife are sure that the parenting policy they are enacting has "a limited" (235) what?

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

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