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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. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?
(a) The family.
(b) Civilization itself.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) The economy.

2. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Perth.
(d) Auckland.

3. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2011.

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

5. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?
(a) Investment.
(b) Banking.
(c) Real estate.
(d) Travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?

2. What type of sunglasses does O'Connell associate with the doomsday prepping community?

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

4. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?

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

(see the answer key)

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