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INTRODUCTION-CHAPTER 12
Reading Check
1. How many people now live in Greater Chongqing?
2. When the narrator visits the village in the rainforest in Brazil, how does the narrator believe they have survived?
3. What is Phalanx?
4. In the first 12 chapters, how many were interviews with people from the United States, and what can be inferred from that?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Why does the narrator publish this version of the report?
2. Why does Nuri Televaldi finally leave smuggling?
3. How does the interview with Jacob Nyathi illustrate the chaos erupting around the world?
4. What are some examples of misinformation adding to the tragedy?
CHAPTERS 13-24
Reading Check
1. When Blaire describes the people trying to get away on I-80, what does he say happened?
2. Why does Maria Zhuganova believe the government carried out the program of decimation?
3. Ahmed Farahnakian recounts which two countries firing nuclear weapons at each other?
4. What was the German version of the Redeker Plan called?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
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