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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Under the Hide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Caroline described a wooden box in which she kept how many seeds from a particular tree?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 50.
(d) 10.

2. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 5th.
(c) The 3rd.
(d) The 9th.

3. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Diving.
(d) Golf.

5. O'Connell describes arriving at the conclusion that which island was a metaphor for all of earth in the modern age?
(a) San Juan Island.
(b) Three-Mile Island.
(c) Fire Island.
(d) Easter Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what branch of the military did the founder of the American Redoubt movement serve?

2. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?

3. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?

4. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?

5. Which friend of O'Connell's was the one who discussed a particular graph measuring consumption?

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