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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many thousands of visitors did the Zone attract during the year 2016?
2. Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future discusses a place called the Zone in which country?
3. One-third of the people along on O'Connell's tour of the Zone hailed from which country?
4. For how many days did O'Connell and Dylan remain in the Zone during their trip?
5. O'Connell describes arriving at the conclusion that which island was a metaphor for all of earth in the modern age?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what country did Mark O'Connell travel two months after the retreat on the Alladale Wilderness Reserve and why?
2. Who is Dylan and what was occurring in his life at the time of his trip to the Zone?
3. Who is Thich Nhat Hanh?
4. What does the ferris wheel in Pripyat symbolize, according to O'Connell?
5. Provide three details about Igor's life.
6. What distinction does O'Connell make about the Zone and why is the observation ironic?
7. What is the most recognizable landmark in all of Pripyat and why?
8. At what type of location did O'Connell attend a retreat in the spring of 2017?
9. What was the final task assigned to the participants on the retreat described in Chapter 6: Under the Hide?
10. Who or what is the Lorax?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way does O'Connell go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?
Essay Topic 2
Examine O'Connell’s use of characterization methods to portray himself within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in Notes From an Apocalypse?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of Notes From an Apocalypse.
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