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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Caroline lives on a house boat along which river, according to O'Connell?
(a) The Mississippi.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Rhine.
(d) The Snake.

2. O'Connell states that the most striking photographs he took during his visit to the Zone featured what type of store?
(a) Book.
(b) Pet.
(c) Shoe.
(d) Electronics.

3. Which friend of O'Connell's was the one who discussed a particular graph measuring consumption?
(a) John.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Thich.
(d) Andres.

4. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Jungletown.
(c) Vivos.
(d) Mina.

5. At the time of O'Connell's visit to the Zone, how many years before had the Chernobyl disaster occurred?
(a) 42.
(b) 31.
(c) 51.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From which country did the monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh originally hail?

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?

5. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

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