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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of landmark is Mount Eden, the location to which Anthony took O'Connell immediately upon picking him up at the airport?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A nature reserve.
(c) A historic landmark.
(d) A toxic waste site.

2. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 5 or 6.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 13 or 14.
(d) 11 or 12.

3. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?
(a) The future.
(b) The battle between good and evil.
(c) World peace.
(d) Financial solvency.

4. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?
(a) A handful.
(b) Dozens.
(c) Scores.
(d) None.

5. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Anger.
(d) Tranquility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

2. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

3. How many days in total did O'Connell spend in Auckland, New Zealand?

4. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?

5. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?

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