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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 does O'Connell describe Caroline's position?

2. What is the first name of the man called Lister, who owned the location called Alladale?

3. How many thousands of visitors did the Zone attract during the year 2016?

4. How many months after the Alladale retreat did O'Connell take a trip to the Zone?

5. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide three details about Igor's life.

2. How many people lived in the location now referred to as the Zone prior to the nuclear disaster?

3. To what country did Mark O'Connell travel two months after the retreat on the Alladale Wilderness Reserve and why?

4. Who is Andres?

5. What is the symbolism of the graph depicting continual human progress over time?

6. Who or what is the Lorax?

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

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

9. Who is Dylan and what was occurring in his life at the time of his trip to the Zone?

10. At what type of location did O'Connell attend a retreat in the spring of 2017?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does O'Connell use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of hypocrisy treated within O'Connell’s book Notes From an Apocalypse and with which of the text’s messages does the theme closely connect?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss O'Connell's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Notes From an Apocalypse.

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