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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 kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) A penguin.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A polar bear.
(d) An ostrich.

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

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

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)?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) America.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Despair.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?

3. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?

4. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?

5. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?

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