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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. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?
(a) Magistrates.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Colonizers.

2. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?
(a) A manifesto.
(b) A book.
(c) A pamphlet.
(d) A bill.

3. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. What new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Slowness.
(b) Rapidity.
(c) Tenuousness.
(d) Exciting.

5. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

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

3. O'Connell discusses seeing a man performing what action on the street corner as he took no notice of anyone around him?

4. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?

5. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

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