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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Toward the end of the retreat described in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" each participant spends how many consecutive hours alone in the forest?
(a) 24.
(b) 100.
(c) 36.
(d) 12.

2. O'Connell went on a trip to the Zone with a man named Dylan, who was related to O'Connell in what way?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Friend.
(d) Brother.

3. What kind of artist was the man who served as O'Connell's son's first example of an auteur?
(a) A painter.
(b) A film director.
(c) A writer.
(d) A choreographer.

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

5. What kind of feeling did O'Connell's friend report experiencing while looking at a graph about consumption?
(a) Plunging.
(b) Flying.
(c) Swooning.
(d) Sinking.

6. Near the end of Chapter 7: "The Final Resting Place," O'Connell states that "meditation upon" what topic "became a mainstay of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and literature" (213)?
(a) Silence.
(b) Death.
(c) Impermanence.
(d) Isolation.

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

8. The picture book discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" features which word to stand in for any material object?
(a) Rooneed.
(b) Parentis.
(c) Schneed.
(d) Thneed.

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

10. What is NOT designated as one of the representative circles discussed in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) Self.
(b) Friends and family.
(c) Spouse.
(d) Larger world.

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

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

13. How many months after the Alladale retreat did O'Connell take a trip to the Zone?
(a) 2.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

14. Which specific airport is featured in O'Connell's discussion of airports in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) JFK.
(b) O'Hare.
(c) Heathrow.
(d) Stapleton.

15. 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) Trees.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Worms.

Short Answer Questions

1. One-third of the people along on O'Connell's tour of the Zone hailed from which country?

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

3. The region referred to as the Zone was once home to how many thousands of Soviet citizens?

4. In what part of the world is the location called Alladale, according to O'Connell?

5. O'Connell realized during the tour that both he and what other person were looking to exploit the Chernobyl site?

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