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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 role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) Investor.
(b) CEO.
(c) Director.
(d) Founder.

2. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?
(a) Looming crisis.
(b) Meme.
(c) Help.
(d) Climate change.

3. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 1,600 feet.
(b) 3,800 feet.
(c) 700 feet.
(d) 2,400 feet.

4. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?
(a) Circular.
(b) Square.
(c) Elliptical.
(d) Rectangular.

5. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Diving.
(c) Golf.
(d) Hockey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

2. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?

3. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?

4. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?

5. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

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