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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Redness of the Map.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Finite.
(c) Useless.
(d) Stop.

2. How does O'Connell describe Caroline's position?
(a) Artist.
(b) Professor.
(c) Singer.
(d) Academic.

3. What is the name of the artist who served as O'Connell's son's first example of an auteur?
(a) Pablo Picasso.
(b) Paul Thomas Anderson.
(c) Dr. Seuss.
(d) Bob Fosse.

4. What kind of landmark is the site described as "the most recognizable landmark" (193) within the Zone?
(a) A ferris wheel.
(b) A church.
(c) A prison.
(d) A rail station.

5. O'Connell's family member coincidentally looked at what type of creature, thereby totally overlooking the problematic couple?
(a) A cat.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A pigeon.
(d) A sparrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?

2. The text that accompanies the tooth hanging on O'Connell's son's bedroom wall says that the tooth is how many millions of years old?

3. O'Connell states that at the time described in Chapter 8: The Redness of the Map, it was the second time in how many months that a status red had been declared?

4. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?

5. Who regretted that O'Connell's son knew what kind of institution lay down the street from the family home?

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