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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How do urban explorers think of their subculture, according to MacFarlane? (from Second Chamber - Chapter 5)

As pioneers of a new, more democratic society underground.

A radical act of disobediance and liberation.

As explorers, travellers and partiers.

As tramps who resist the standards of life above ground.

2.

What model of forest life did Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard propose in the 1990s? (from Chapter 4)

That the collaborative systems of a forest communicate through trees.

That fungi were the basis of all the systems in the forest.

That forests were competitive systems where the strong survived and the weak perished.

That forests were collaborative systems full of interrelationships.

3.

What was Paris' invisible underground city used for? (from Second Chamber - Chapter 5)

Mining, prisons, and to house the city's infastructure.

Mining, burials, growing mushrooms, and as hiding spots for French resistance fighters during WWII.

Prisons and torture chambers.

Hiding spots for French resistance fighters during WWII and, before that, torture chambers during the French revolution.

4.

What is solastalgia? (from Chapter 9)

Distress caused by ecological loss.

The inability to feel nostalgia.

A disorder caused by seismic mapping.

Fear of climate change.

5.

What is a temporary autonomous zone? (from Second Chamber - Chapter 5)

A place where there are temporarily no laws governing economic transactions.

A place where there is no government, country or military in charge.

A place where people can slip into different identities and assume new ways of being.

A place where people can temporarily be free and behave however they wish.

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