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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last name of the woman named Caroline with whom O'Connell makes friends at the retreat?
(a) Cowart.
(b) Stewart.
(c) Miller.
(d) Ross.

2. Igor told O'Connell that what act is illegal within the limits of the Zone?
(a) Walking the streets after dark.
(b) Eating.
(c) Chewing gum.
(d) Remaining outside for longer than one hour at a time.

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

4. O'Connell spent a week at Alladale in the spring of which year?
(a) 2017.
(b) 1989.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2002.

5. For what purpose did Caroline plan to use the seeds in the wooden box if the need arose?
(a) Diuretic.
(b) Anesthetic.
(c) Pain-reliever.
(d) Suicide.

6. Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future discusses a place called the Zone in which country?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Morocco.

7. In Chapter 6: "Under the Hide," O'Connell discusses at length a character called the Lorax, who states that he "speak[s] for the" (132) what?
(a) Birds.
(b) Worms.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Trees.

8. Igor tells the tour group that if anyone of what type gets hurt at the Zone, there will be no more tours?
(a) Americans.
(b) Children.
(c) Ukranians.
(d) Europeans.

9. By what name was the now-defunct amusement park in the Zone known?
(a) Nitschel.
(b) Pripyat.
(c) Playa.
(d) Larch.

10. The movement of artists O'Connell discusses believes that what item assuming continual progress of humankind over time "has been fatally undermined in our time" (143)?
(a) A set of scales.
(b) A graph.
(c) An axis.
(d) A chart.

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

12. At the time of the trip, Dylan had relocated to which city several years before?
(a) Orlando.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) San Jose.

13. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?
(a) Buying a home.
(b) Fostering a child.
(c) Finishing his degree.
(d) Having a child.

14. How many other tour groups did O'Connell's group encounter during the visit to the Zone?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 1 or 2.
(c) 8 or 9.
(d) 0.

15. How many people attended the retreat at Alladale in total?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of "revelation" (162) does O'Connell call the epiphany he had in the airport?

2. The Lorax and his story has led to many bedtime conversations between O'Connell and his son about which topic?

3. What was the eventual fate of the amusement park discussed in Chapter 7: "The Final Resting Place"?

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

5. O'Connell states that the only freedom one has in an airport is the freedom to take which action?

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