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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell went on a trip to the Zone with a man named Dylan, who was related to O'Connell in what way?
(a) Brother.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Friend.

2. One-third of the people along on O'Connell's tour of the Zone hailed from which country?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) The United States.

3. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?
(a) Fostering a child.
(b) Buying a home.
(c) Having a child.
(d) Finishing his degree.

4. Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future discusses a place called the Zone in which country?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Ukraine.

5. Which specific airport is featured in O'Connell's discussion of airports in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) Stapleton.
(b) O'Hare.
(c) JFK.
(d) Heathrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term, meaning self-settlers, do Ukranians use to designate the remaining permanent residents of the Zone?

2. How old was O'Connell's son when he was first introduced to the concept of the artist's vision?

3. Gorbachev believed that the Chernobyl disaster would create how many years of aftereffects?

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

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Andres?

2. Who is Paul Lister and what was his goal when he bought a large amount of land in the British Isles?

3. Who or what is the Lorax?

4. What is the state of the tourism industry in the Zone?

5. Who is Igor?

6. What does the ferris wheel in Pripyat symbolize, according to O'Connell?

7. What event in O'Connell's life caused him to enter a cycle of alternate hopefulness and despair?

8. What is the significance of the number 800, as revealed in Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place?

9. Provide three details about Igor's life.

10. What distinction does O'Connell make about the Zone and why is the observation ironic?

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