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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many thousands of visitors did the Zone attract during the year 2016?
(a) 4.
(b) 90.
(c) 12.
(d) 36.

2. 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) 12.
(b) 36.
(c) 24.
(d) 100.

3. Gorbachev believed that the Chernobyl disaster would create how many years of aftereffects?
(a) 800.
(b) 600.
(c) 400.
(d) 200.

4. Lister's goal for purchasing Alladale included reintroducing all but which of the following types of animals to the area?
(a) Bears.
(b) Lynx.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Wolves.

5. 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) A chart.
(d) An axis.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell classifies the Zone's most recognizable landmark as a "symbol of a decayed" (193) what?

2. From what type of tree were the seeds discussed by Caroline in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?

3. At the time of the trip, Dylan had relocated to which city several years before?

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

5. Who developed a theory concerning three different circles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Igor?

2. What event in O'Connell's life caused him to enter a cycle of alternate hopefulness and despair?

3. Who or what is the Lorax?

4. Who is Paul Lister and what was his goal when he bought a large amount of land in the British Isles?

5. What is the symbolism of the graph depicting continual human progress over time?

6. Who is Andres?

7. What is the most recognizable landmark in all of Pripyat and why?

8. To what country did Mark O'Connell travel two months after the retreat on the Alladale Wilderness Reserve and why?

9. What is the significance of the number 800, as revealed in Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place?

10. What event was the catalyst for O'Connell's son's epiphany about the role of the artist?

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